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Re: how to recursively grep


From: rusi
Subject: Re: how to recursively grep
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 05:47:52 -0700 (PDT)
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On Aug 21, 1:14 pm, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> Am 21.08.2012 um 05:23 schrieb rusi:
>
> > What am I doing wrong?
>
> Are you searching at all? Your pages long find command seems to just exclude 
> instead of searching…
>
> In which files do you think the string "charset-map-path" will occur? Then 
> search for these files only:
>
>         M-x find-grep RET
>         <insert the search string at the cursor position>
>         <insert '-name "*.el.gz ' appropriately>
>         <adjust where the search will start, if needed>
>         <adjust the grep command to deal with compressed files>
>         RET
>
> It also works to search in C source files with '-name "*.[ch]"'.


So you are saying dont use zrgrep but use find-grep?


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