1 ;;; find-dired.el --- run a `find' command and dired the output
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6 ;; Author: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>,
7 ;; Sebastian Kremer <sk@thp.uni-koeln.de>
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34 (defgroup find-dired nil
35 "Run a `find' command and dired the output."
39 (defcustom find-dired-find-program
"find"
40 "Program used to find files."
44 ;; find's -ls corresponds to these switches.
45 ;; Note -b, at least GNU find quotes spaces etc. in filenames
47 (defcustom find-ls-option
48 (if (eq system-type
'berkeley-unix
) '("-ls" .
"-gilsb")
49 '("-exec ls -ld {} \\;" .
"-ld"))
50 "*Description of the option to `find' to produce an `ls -l'-type listing.
51 This is a cons of two strings (FIND-OPTION . LS-SWITCHES). FIND-OPTION
52 gives the option (or options) to `find' that produce the desired output.
53 LS-SWITCHES is a list of `ls' switches to tell dired how to parse the output."
54 :type
'(cons (string :tag
"Find Option")
55 (string :tag
"Ls Switches"))
59 (defcustom find-ls-subdir-switches
"-al"
60 "`ls' switches for inserting subdirectories in `*Find*' buffers.
61 This should contain the \"-l\" switch.
62 Use the \"-F\" or \"-b\" switches if and only if you also use
63 them for `find-ls-option'."
69 (defcustom find-grep-options
70 (if (or (eq system-type
'berkeley-unix
)
71 (string-match "solaris2" system-configuration
)
72 (string-match "irix" system-configuration
))
74 "*Option to grep to be as silent as possible.
75 On Berkeley systems, this is `-s'; on Posix, and with GNU grep, `-q' does it.
76 On other systems, the closest you can come is to use `-l'."
81 "Last arguments given to `find' by \\[find-dired].")
83 ;; History of find-args values entered in the minibuffer.
84 (defvar find-args-history nil
)
86 (defvar dired-sort-inhibit
)
89 (defun find-dired (dir args
)
90 "Run `find' and go into Dired mode on a buffer of the output.
91 The command run (after changing into DIR) is
93 find . \\( ARGS \\) -ls
95 except that the variable `find-ls-option' specifies what to use
96 as the final argument."
97 (interactive (list (read-file-name "Run find in directory: " nil
"" t
)
98 (read-string "Run find (with args): " find-args
99 '(find-args-history .
1))))
100 (let ((dired-buffers dired-buffers
))
101 ;; Expand DIR ("" means default-directory), and make sure it has a
103 (setq dir
(file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name dir
)))
104 ;; Check that it's really a directory.
105 (or (file-directory-p dir
)
106 (error "find-dired needs a directory: %s" dir
))
107 (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create "*Find*"))
109 ;; See if there's still a `find' running, and offer to kill
110 ;; it first, if it is.
111 (let ((find (get-buffer-process (current-buffer))))
113 (if (or (not (eq (process-status find
) 'run
))
114 (yes-or-no-p "A `find' process is running; kill it? "))
117 (interrupt-process find
)
119 (delete-process find
))
121 (error "Cannot have two processes in `%s' at once" (buffer-name)))))
124 (kill-all-local-variables)
125 (setq buffer-read-only nil
)
127 (setq default-directory dir
128 find-args args
; save for next interactive call
129 args
(concat find-dired-find-program
" . "
130 (if (string= args
"")
133 (shell-quote-argument "(")
135 (shell-quote-argument ")")
137 (if (equal (car find-ls-option
) "-exec ls -ld {} \\;")
138 (concat "-exec ls -ld "
139 (shell-quote-argument "{}")
141 (shell-quote-argument ";"))
142 (car find-ls-option
))))
143 ;; Start the find process.
144 (shell-command (concat args
"&") (current-buffer))
145 ;; The next statement will bomb in classic dired (no optional arg allowed)
146 (dired-mode dir
(cdr find-ls-option
))
147 (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
148 (set-keymap-parent map
(current-local-map))
149 (define-key map
"\C-c\C-k" 'kill-find
)
151 (make-local-variable 'dired-sort-inhibit
)
152 (setq dired-sort-inhibit t
)
153 (set (make-local-variable 'revert-buffer-function
)
154 `(lambda (ignore-auto noconfirm
)
155 (find-dired ,dir
,find-args
)))
156 ;; Set subdir-alist so that Tree Dired will work:
157 (if (fboundp 'dired-simple-subdir-alist
)
158 ;; will work even with nested dired format (dired-nstd.el,v 1.15
160 (dired-simple-subdir-alist)
161 ;; else we have an ancient tree dired (or classic dired, where
162 ;; this does no harm)
163 (set (make-local-variable 'dired-subdir-alist
)
164 (list (cons default-directory
(point-min-marker)))))
165 (set (make-local-variable 'dired-subdir-switches
) find-ls-subdir-switches
)
166 (setq buffer-read-only nil
)
167 ;; Subdir headlerline must come first because the first marker in
168 ;; subdir-alist points there.
169 (insert " " dir
":\n")
170 ;; Make second line a ``find'' line in analogy to the ``total'' or
171 ;; ``wildcard'' line.
172 (insert " " args
"\n")
173 (setq buffer-read-only t
)
174 (let ((proc (get-buffer-process (current-buffer))))
175 (set-process-filter proc
(function find-dired-filter
))
176 (set-process-sentinel proc
(function find-dired-sentinel
))
177 ;; Initialize the process marker; it is used by the filter.
178 (move-marker (process-mark proc
) 1 (current-buffer)))
179 (setq mode-line-process
'(":%s"))))
182 "Kill the `find' process running in the current buffer."
184 (let ((find (get-buffer-process (current-buffer))))
185 (and find
(eq (process-status find
) 'run
)
186 (eq (process-filter find
) (function find-dired-filter
))
188 (delete-process find
)
192 (defun find-name-dired (dir pattern
)
193 "Search DIR recursively for files matching the globbing pattern PATTERN,
194 and run dired on those files.
195 PATTERN is a shell wildcard (not an Emacs regexp) and need not be quoted.
196 The command run (after changing into DIR) is
198 find . -name 'PATTERN' -ls"
200 "DFind-name (directory): \nsFind-name (filename wildcard): ")
201 (find-dired dir
(concat "-name " (shell-quote-argument pattern
))))
203 ;; This functionality suggested by
204 ;; From: oblanc@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Olivier Blanc)
205 ;; Subject: find-dired, lookfor-dired
206 ;; Date: 10 May 91 17:50:00 GMT
207 ;; Organization: University of Waterloo
209 (defalias 'lookfor-dired
'find-grep-dired
)
211 (defun find-grep-dired (dir regexp
)
212 "Find files in DIR containing a regexp REGEXP and start Dired on output.
213 The command run (after changing into DIR) is
215 find . -exec grep -s -e REGEXP {} \\\; -ls
217 Thus ARG can also contain additional grep options."
218 (interactive "DFind-grep (directory): \nsFind-grep (grep regexp): ")
219 ;; find -exec doesn't allow shell i/o redirections in the command,
220 ;; or we could use `grep -l >/dev/null'
221 ;; We use -type f, not ! -type d, to avoid getting screwed
222 ;; by FIFOs and devices. I'm not sure what's best to do
223 ;; about symlinks, so as far as I know this is not wrong.
225 (concat "-type f -exec grep " find-grep-options
" -e "
226 (shell-quote-argument regexp
)
228 (shell-quote-argument "{}")
230 (shell-quote-argument ";"))))
232 (defun find-dired-filter (proc string
)
233 ;; Filter for \\[find-dired] processes.
234 (let ((buf (process-buffer proc
))
235 (inhibit-read-only t
))
236 (if (buffer-name buf
) ; not killed?
242 (let ((buffer-read-only nil
)
249 (while (looking-at "^")
252 ;; Convert ` ./FILE' to ` FILE'
253 ;; This would lose if the current chunk of output
254 ;; starts or ends within the ` ./', so back up a bit:
255 (goto-char (- end
3)) ; no error if < 0
256 (while (search-forward " ./" nil t
)
257 (delete-region (point) (- (point) 2)))
258 ;; Find all the complete lines in the unprocessed
259 ;; output and process it to add text properties.
260 (goto-char (point-max))
261 (if (search-backward "\n" (process-mark proc
) t
)
263 (dired-insert-set-properties (process-mark proc
)
265 (move-marker (process-mark proc
) (1+ (point)))))
267 ;; The buffer has been killed.
268 (delete-process proc
))))
270 (defun find-dired-sentinel (proc state
)
271 ;; Sentinel for \\[find-dired] processes.
272 (let ((buf (process-buffer proc
))
273 (inhibit-read-only t
))
274 (if (buffer-name buf
)
277 (let ((buffer-read-only nil
))
279 (goto-char (point-max))
280 (insert "\n find " state
)
281 (forward-char -
1) ;Back up before \n at end of STATE.
282 (insert " at " (substring (current-time-string) 0 19))
284 (setq mode-line-process
286 (symbol-name (process-status proc
))))
287 ;; Since the buffer and mode line will show that the
288 ;; process is dead, we can delete it now. Otherwise it
289 ;; will stay around until M-x list-processes.
290 (delete-process proc
)
291 (force-mode-line-update)))
292 (message "find-dired %s finished." (current-buffer))))))
295 (provide 'find-dired
)
297 ;;; arch-tag: 8edece95-af00-4221-bc74-a4bd2f75f9b0
298 ;;; find-dired.el ends here