How to search for files from a root directory and get the results as a dired buffer?

Question

I have a directory which contains directories with many music albums, and I'm doing a selection of songs according a list I found on the Internet. What I'm doing is splitting windows with the destination directory on the left, and the root directory of my music collection on the right. Sadly, I have to manually search for the song among many directories and subdirectories.

So, I was wondering if there was a way to do a recursive search by term and have the results in a dired buffer, enabling me to operate over them as I would normally do in dired.

Any idea on how to achieve this?

Answer 1

You can use the find-dired, which runs a standard find command and displays the results in dired format.

This command will ask for the directory to search within, and for find-style options.

For example, to find files whose name include "salsa", use -iname "*salsa*" as an option.