1 ;;; find-dired.el --- run a `find' command and dired the output
3 ;;; Copyright (C) 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu>,
6 ;; Sebastian Kremer <sk@thp.uni-koeln.de>
7 ;; Maintainer: Sebastian Kremer <sk@thp.uni-koeln.de>
10 (defconst find-dired-version
(substring "$Revision: 1.13 $" 11 -
2)
11 "$Id: find-dired.el,v 1.13 1993/05/28 00:58:08 roland Exp rms $")
13 ;;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
14 ;;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
15 ;;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
16 ;;; any later version.
18 ;;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
19 ;;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
20 ;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
21 ;;; GNU General Public License for more details.
23 ;;; A copy of the GNU General Public License can be obtained from this
24 ;;; program's author (send electronic mail to roland@ai.mit.edu) or from
25 ;;; the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
31 ;; LISPDIR ENTRY for the Elisp Archive ===============================
33 ;; find-dired|Roland McGrath, Sebastian Kremer
34 ;; |roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu, sk@thp.uni-koeln.de
35 ;; |Run a `find' command and dired the output
36 ;; |$Date: 1993/05/28 00:58:08 $|$Revision: 1.13 $|
38 ;; INSTALLATION ======================================================
40 ;; To use this file, byte-compile it, install it somewhere in your
41 ;; load-path, and put:
43 ;; (autoload 'find-dired "find-dired" nil t)
44 ;; (autoload 'find-name-dired "find-dired" nil t)
45 ;; (autoload 'find-grep-dired "find-dired" nil t)
47 ;; in your ~/.emacs, or site-init.el, etc.
49 ;; To bind it to a key, put, e.g.:
51 ;; (global-set-key "\C-cf" 'find-dired)
52 ;; (global-set-key "\C-cn" 'find-name-dired)
53 ;; (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'find-grep-dired)
62 (defvar find-ls-option
(if (eq system-type
'berkeley-unix
) "-ls"
63 "-exec ls -ldi {} \\;")
64 "*Option to `find' to produce an `ls -l'-type listing.")
67 (defvar find-grep-options
(if (eq system-type
'berkeley-unix
) "-s" "-l")
68 "*Option to grep to be as silent as possible.
69 On Berkeley systems, this is `-s', for others it seems impossible to
70 suppress all output, so `-l' is used to print nothing more than the
74 "Last arguments given to `find' by \\[find-dired].")
77 (defun find-dired (dir args
)
78 "Run `find' and go into dired-mode on a buffer of the output.
79 The command run (after changing into DIR) is
81 find . \\( ARGS \\) -ls"
82 (interactive (list (read-file-name "Run find in directory: " nil
"" t
)
83 (if (featurep 'gmhist
)
84 (read-with-history-in 'find-args-history
85 "Run find (with args): ")
86 (read-string "Run find (with args): " find-args
))))
87 ;; Expand DIR ("" means default-directory), and make sure it has a
89 (setq dir
(file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name dir
)))
90 ;; Check that it's really a directory.
91 (or (file-directory-p dir
)
92 (error "find-dired needs a directory: %s" dir
))
93 (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create "*Find*"))
95 (kill-all-local-variables)
96 (setq buffer-read-only nil
)
98 (setq default-directory dir
99 find-args args
; save for next interactive call
100 args
(concat "find . "
101 (if (string= args
"")
103 (concat "\\( " args
" \\) "))
105 ;; The next statement will bomb in classic dired (no optional arg allowed)
106 ;; find(1)'s -ls corresponds to these switches.
107 ;; Note -b, at least GNU find quotes spaces etc. in filenames
108 (dired-mode dir
"-gilsb")
109 ;; Set subdir-alist so that Tree Dired will work:
110 (if (fboundp 'dired-simple-subdir-alist
)
111 ;; will work even with nested dired format (dired-nstd.el,v 1.15
113 (dired-simple-subdir-alist)
114 ;; else we have an ancient tree dired (or classic dired, where
115 ;; this does no harm)
116 (set (make-local-variable 'dired-subdir-alist
)
117 (list (cons default-directory
(point-min-marker)))))
118 (setq buffer-read-only nil
)
119 ;; Subdir headlerline must come first because the first marker in
120 ;; subdir-alist points there.
121 (insert " " dir
":\n")
122 ;; Make second line a ``find'' line in analogy to the ``total'' or
123 ;; ``wildcard'' line.
124 (insert " " args
"\n")
125 ;; Start the find process
126 (set-process-filter (start-process-shell-command "find"
127 (current-buffer) args
)
128 (function find-dired-filter
))
129 (set-process-sentinel (get-buffer-process (current-buffer))
130 (function find-dired-sentinel
))
131 (setq mode-line-process
'(": %s")))
134 (defun find-name-dired (dir pattern
)
135 "Search DIR recursively for files matching the globbing pattern PATTERN,
136 and run dired on those files.
137 PATTERN is a shell wildcard (not an Emacs regexp) and need not be quoted.
138 The command run (after changing into DIR) is
140 find . -name 'PATTERN' -ls"
142 "DFind-name (directory): \nsFind-name (filename wildcard): ")
143 (find-dired dir
(concat "-name '" pattern
"'")))
145 ;; This functionality suggested by
146 ;; From: oblanc@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Olivier Blanc)
147 ;; Subject: find-dired, lookfor-dired
148 ;; Date: 10 May 91 17:50:00 GMT
149 ;; Organization: University of Waterloo
151 (defalias 'lookfor-dired
'find-grep-dired
)
153 (defun find-grep-dired (dir args
)
154 "Find files in DIR containing a regexp ARG and start Dired on output.
155 The command run (after changing into DIR) is
157 find . -exec grep -s ARG {} \\\; -ls
159 Thus ARG can also contain additional grep options."
160 (interactive "DFind-grep (directory): \nsFind-grep (grep args): ")
161 ;; find -exec doesn't allow shell i/o redirections in the command,
162 ;; or we could use `grep -l >/dev/null'
164 (concat "! -type d -exec grep " find-grep-options
" "
167 (defun find-dired-filter (proc string
)
168 ;; Filter for \\[find-dired] processes.
169 (let ((buf (process-buffer proc
)))
170 (if (buffer-name buf
) ; not killed?
176 (let ((buffer-read-only nil
)
183 (while (looking-at "^")
186 ;; Convert ` ./FILE' to ` FILE'
187 ;; This would lose if the current chunk of output
188 ;; starts or ends within the ` ./', so backup up a bit:
189 (goto-char (- end
3)) ; no error if < 0
190 (while (search-forward " ./" nil t
)
191 (delete-region (point) (- (point) 2)))))))
192 ;; The buffer has been killed.
193 (delete-process proc
))))
195 (defun find-dired-sentinel (proc state
)
196 ;; Sentinel for \\[find-dired] processes.
197 (let ((buf (process-buffer proc
)))
198 (if (buffer-name buf
)
201 (let ((buffer-read-only nil
))
203 (goto-char (point-max))
204 (insert "\nfind " state
)
205 (forward-char -
1) ;Back up before \n at end of STATE.
206 (insert " at " (substring (current-time-string) 0 19))
208 (setq mode-line-process
210 (symbol-name (process-status proc
))))
211 ;; Since the buffer and mode line will show that the
212 ;; process is dead, we can delete it now. Otherwise it
213 ;; will stay around until M-x list-processes.
214 (delete-process proc
)
215 ;; Force mode line redisplay soon.
216 (set-buffer-modified-p (buffer-modified-p))))
217 (message "find-dired %s finished." (current-buffer))))))
219 (or (fboundp 'start-process-shell-command
)
220 ;; From version 19 subr.el.
221 (defun start-process-shell-command (name buffer
&rest args
)
222 "Start a program in a subprocess. Return the process object for it.
223 Args are NAME BUFFER COMMAND &rest COMMAND-ARGS.
224 NAME is name for process. It is modified if necessary to make it unique.
225 BUFFER is the buffer or (buffer-name) to associate with the process.
226 Process output goes at end of that buffer, unless you specify
227 an output stream or filter function to handle the output.
228 BUFFER may be also nil, meaning that this process is not associated
230 Third arg is command name, the name of a shell command.
231 Remaining arguments are the arguments for the command.
232 Wildcards and redirection are handled as usual in the shell."
233 (if (eq system-type
'vax-vms
)
234 (apply 'start-process name buffer args
)
235 (start-process name buffer shell-file-name
"-c"
236 (concat "exec " (mapconcat 'identity args
" "))))))
238 (provide 'find-dired
)
240 ;;; find-dired.el ends here