From howard@silverstream.com Thu May 8 12:09:51 1997 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] [nil "Thu" " 8" "May" "1997" "15:09:01" "-0400" "Howard Melman" "howard@silverstream.com" nil "40" "RE: M-x grep (recursive?)" "^From:" nil nil "5" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from ptown.silverstream.com (silverstream.com [204.164.96.2]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.8.5+CS/7.2ju) with ESMTP id MAA00497 for ; Thu, 8 May 1997 12:09:50 -0700 Received: from ABSOLUT.silverstream.com ([204.164.96.41]) by ptown.silverstream.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA210 for ; Thu, 8 May 1997 15:09:01 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <199705080131.SAA42220@joker.cs.washington.edu> References: <199705080131.SAA42220@joker.cs.washington.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.30 under Emacs 19.34.1 Message-ID: <19970508190900203.AAA210@ABSOLUT.silverstream.com> From: Howard Melman To: voelker@cs.washington.edu (Geoff Voelker) Subject: RE: M-x grep (recursive?) Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 15:09:01 -0400 On Wed May 7, 1997, Geoff Voelker wrote: > I've added a discussion of grep and recursive grep to the FAQ at: > > http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html#grep > http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html#grep-recursive > > I know that this has come up before with similar answers, but thanks > Bret and Jeff for again answering the question. I think it would be worthwhile to mention igrep in this section. It's a standard package that offers a nicer interface to the grep family commands including a find version. For ntemacs folks need to know: If you are running Windows 95/NT, you should install findutils and grep from release 17.1 (or higher) of the Cygnus GNU-Win32 distribution. See . Also cmd.exe and the cygnus tools have some problems, this works around them: ;; use bash for compile commands ;; cygnus find doesn't work great under cmd.exe, particularly ;; -name "*.java" doesn't work under cmd.exe but it does under bash (defadvice compile-internal (around cygnus-workaround activate) (let ((shell-file-name "d:\\gnu\\bin\\bash.exe") (win32-quote-process-args t) (shell-command-switch "-c") (path-separator ":") (grep-null-device "NUL")) ad-do-it)) (setq igrep-expression-quote-char ?') (setq igrep-parenthesis-escape-char ?\\) Howard From owner-ntemacs-users@trout Mon May 12 01:35:03 1997 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] [nil "" "12" "May" "1997" "09:55:09" "+0200" "Harald Backer" "harald.backer@fou.telenor.no" nil "80" "Re: M-x grep (recursive?)" "^From:" nil nil "5" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from joker.cs.washington.edu (joker.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.42]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.8.5+CS/7.2ju) with SMTP id BAA13591 for ; Mon, 12 May 1997 01:35:03 -0700 Received: from trout.cs.washington.edu (trout.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.178]) by joker.cs.washington.edu (8.6.12/7.2ws+) with ESMTP id BAA36649 for ; Mon, 12 May 1997 01:35:01 -0700 Received: from june.cs.washington.edu (june.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.4]) by trout.cs.washington.edu (8.8.5+CS/7.2ws+) with ESMTP id BAA25529 for ; Mon, 12 May 1997 01:00:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mammon.nta.no (mammon.nta.no [193.156.18.66]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.8.5+CS/7.2ju) with SMTP id BAA12779 for ; Mon, 12 May 1997 01:00:06 -0700 Received: from NT-HBA.fou.telenor.no ([193.156.18.94]) by mammon.nta.no with SMTP id AA06693 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Mon, 12 May 1997 09:59:58 +0200 References: <3370B3A4.6F0BE895@diffusion.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.95) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: Shahram Javey's message of Wed, 7 May 1997 19:10:29 +0000 Message-Id: Lines: 80 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.25/Emacs 19.34 From: Harald Backer Sender: harald.backer@fou.telenor.no To: Shahram Javey Cc: ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu Subject: Re: M-x grep (recursive?) Date: 12 May 1997 09:55:09 +0200 Shahram Javey writes: > Hi, I want to be able to use "M-x grep" to search for a string in a > given directory and all of its subdirectories. I still want the result > in a *grep* buffer so that I could use "C-x `" to iterate through the > files that conatin the matching string. How do I do that? I use the igrep.el and globrep.el packages, see attachments for descriptions. They works fine (i.e. UNIX like:) with the Cygnus ports. Here are my settings for bash: (setq igrep-expression-quote-char ?' ;I use bash igrep-parenthesis-escape-char ?\\) ;I use bash See also the find-dired package which comes with emacs. Regards Harald Backer, Telenor R&D, +47 73 543 918, harald.backer@fou.telenor.no ; igrep.el ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;;; igrep|Kevin Rodgers|kevinr@ihs.com| ;;; An improved interface to grep/egrep/fgrep; plus recursive `find` versio= ns.| ;;; 97/02/10|2.56|~/misc/igrep.el.Z| ;;; 2. Put these forms in default.el or ~/.emacs: ;;; (autoload (function igrep) "igrep" ;;; "*Run `grep` PROGRAM to match EXPRESSION in FILES..." t) ;;; (autoload (function igrep-find) "igrep" ;;; "*Run `grep` via `find`..." t) ;;; (autoload (function dired-do-igrep) "igrep" ;;; "*Run `grep` on the marked (or next prefix ARG) files." t) ;;; (autoload (function dired-do-igrep-find) "igrep" ;;; "*Run `grep` via `find` on the marked (or next prefix ARG) direct= ories." t) ;;; 2. a. For completeness, you can add these forms as well: ;;; (autoload (function grep) "igrep" ;;; "*Run `grep` PROGRAM to match EXPRESSION in FILES..." t) ;;; (autoload (function egrep) "igrep" ;;; "*Run `egrep`..." t) ;;; (autoload (function fgrep) "igrep" ;;; "*Run `fgrep`..." t) ;;; (autoload (function agrep) "igrep" ;;; "*Run `agrep`..." t) ;;; (autoload (function grep-find) "igrep" ;;; "*Run `grep` via `find`..." t) ;;; (autoload (function egrep-find) "igrep" ;;; "*Run `egrep` via `find`..." t) ;;; (autoload (function fgrep-find) "igrep" ;;; "*Run `fgrep` via `find`..." t) ;;; (autoload (function agrep-find) "igrep" ;;; "*Run `agrep` via `find`..." t) ;;; (autoload (function dired-do-grep) "igrep" ;;; "*Run `grep` on the marked (or next prefix ARG) files." t) ;;; (autoload (function dired-do-grep-find) "igrep" ;;; "*Run `grep` via `find` on the marked (or next prefix ARG) direct= ories." t) ;;; 3. If you are running Windows 95/NT, you should install findutils ;;; and grep from release 17.1 (or higher) of the Cygnus GNU-Win32 ;;; distribution. See . ; globrep.el ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;= ;; ; Fonction: Search and replace strings in multiple files. ; Cr=E9=E9 : 20 avril 90 --------- Martin Boyer ;; This program can be used to search for and replace strings in ;; multiple files. The idea is to find, in a set of files, all the ;; lines that contain a string to be changed. Then, one can edit ;; the result of this search, and the program will take care of the ;; tedious task of splicing the changes back into the original files. ;; (autoload 'global-replace-lines "globrep" ;; "Put back grepped lines" t) ;; (autoload 'global-replace "globrep" ;; "query-replace across files" t) ;; (autoload 'global-grep-and-replace "globrep" ;; "grep and query-replace across files" t)