Questions tagged [find-dired]
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After query-replace using my-find-files, how to automatically delete-other-windows?
I am following answer for Using Emacs to recursively find and replace in text files not already open
My setup:
(defun my-find-files ()
(interactive)
(find-dired "~/folder" "-name \\*...
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How to ignore files starting with `flycheck_` on `find-name-dired`?
During my search I keep having an error as follows:
Search failed with status 1: find: ‘/home/user/folder/flycheck_Driver.py’: No such file or directory
[Q] Is there any way to ignore files as ...
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Tramp `find-dired`: wrong type argument error
If i use find-dired in a remote directory (from Tramp) then I get a wrong type argument: processp, nil error.
It works on a local dir.
All I pass to find is '-iname "blah"'.
/sftp:andreaz@10.0.0.99:...
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How to replace strings including `.` (dot) as first character using dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace
(defun my-find-orgfiles ()
(interactive)
(find-name-dired "." "*py"))
(global-set-key (kbd "M-n") 'my-find-orgfiles)
Than, t to toggle marked/unmarked files (thus marking them all, since none ...
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find files containing “Emacs”
I employed find within the current directory to find files containing "emacs"
$ find . -type f -iname "*emacs*" | nl | tail -3
34 ./sources/tech/20190916 The Emacs Series Exploring ts.el.md
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Recursively find and replace default setup
I am following approach for the recursively find and replace in text files not already open.
M-x find-name-dired: you will be prompted for a root directory and a filename pattern.
Find-name (...
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How can I do a regex search recursively from a directory?
Basically I want a command that can do the following:
find /path/dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l "foo"
Is there an emacs command to do this? If not, then is there a convenient keybinding that ...
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how to do command substitution in eshell generally (NOT just for loop)
How to do command substitution à la Bash in Eshell, and not just for loops? (Unfortunately, while this question asks my question, its answer only provides Eshell for-loop syntax. So please don't dupe ...
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How to find a directory with given depth from current directory?
Is it possible from within Emacs to find directories with a given depth from the current directory from within Emacs and receive their respective location in form of a list?
I want it to work cross ...
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Printing a list of folders which has been modified today
Is there any way to export a list of folder names which has been modified today using a dired mode or any other package on emacs
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Find files with find-dired sorting by date and by size
I often use find-dired and find-named-dired.
But I wanted to get the results sorted by date and by size.
How can I do that?
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Find files like in Nautilus' search
I occasionally find myself using Nautilus instead of dired to search for files and would like to change that. When looking for a file, I often don't know the capitalization of its name which is why I ...
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Cannot use find-dired: setq: Searching for program: is a directory,
The error is raised by shell-command--shell-command-with-editor-mode. But further stack trace is obfuscated by bytecompiled output. Recently I had to set
(setq explicit-shell-file-name "bash")
to be ...
