1 ;;; find-dired.el --- run a `find' command and dired the output
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5 ;; Author: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>,
6 ;; Sebastian Kremer <sk@thp.uni-koeln.de>
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31 (defgroup find-dired nil
32 "Run a `find' command and dired the output."
36 ;; find's -ls corresponds to these switches.
37 ;; Note -b, at least GNU find quotes spaces etc. in filenames
39 (defcustom find-ls-option
40 (if (eq system-type
'berkeley-unix
) (purecopy '("-ls" .
"-gilsb"))
41 (purecopy '("-exec ls -ld {} \\;" .
"-ld")))
42 "Description of the option to `find' to produce an `ls -l'-type listing.
43 This is a cons of two strings (FIND-OPTION . LS-SWITCHES). FIND-OPTION
44 gives the option (or options) to `find' that produce the desired output.
45 LS-SWITCHES is a list of `ls' switches to tell dired how to parse the output."
46 :type
'(cons (string :tag
"Find Option")
47 (string :tag
"Ls Switches"))
51 (defcustom find-ls-subdir-switches
(purecopy "-al")
52 "`ls' switches for inserting subdirectories in `*Find*' buffers.
53 This should contain the \"-l\" switch.
54 Use the \"-F\" or \"-b\" switches if and only if you also use
55 them for `find-ls-option'."
61 (defcustom find-grep-options
62 (purecopy (if (or (eq system-type
'berkeley-unix
)
63 (string-match "solaris2" system-configuration
)
64 (string-match "irix" system-configuration
))
66 "Option to grep to be as silent as possible.
67 On Berkeley systems, this is `-s'; on Posix, and with GNU grep, `-q' does it.
68 On other systems, the closest you can come is to use `-l'."
72 ;; This used to be autoloaded (see bug#4387).
73 (defcustom find-name-arg
74 (purecopy (if read-file-name-completion-ignore-case
77 "Argument used to specify file name pattern.
78 If `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' is non-nil, -iname is used so that
79 find also ignores case. Otherwise, -name is used."
85 "Last arguments given to `find' by \\[find-dired].")
87 ;; History of find-args values entered in the minibuffer.
88 (defvar find-args-history nil
)
90 (defvar dired-sort-inhibit
)
93 (defun find-dired (dir args
)
94 "Run `find' and go into Dired mode on a buffer of the output.
95 The command run (after changing into DIR) is
97 find . \\( ARGS \\) -ls
99 except that the variable `find-ls-option' specifies what to use
100 as the final argument."
101 (interactive (list (read-directory-name "Run find in directory: " nil
"" t
)
102 (read-string "Run find (with args): " find-args
103 '(find-args-history .
1))))
104 (let ((dired-buffers dired-buffers
))
105 ;; Expand DIR ("" means default-directory), and make sure it has a
107 (setq dir
(file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name dir
)))
108 ;; Check that it's really a directory.
109 (or (file-directory-p dir
)
110 (error "find-dired needs a directory: %s" dir
))
111 (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create "*Find*"))
113 ;; See if there's still a `find' running, and offer to kill
114 ;; it first, if it is.
115 (let ((find (get-buffer-process (current-buffer))))
117 (if (or (not (eq (process-status find
) 'run
))
118 (yes-or-no-p "A `find' process is running; kill it? "))
121 (interrupt-process find
)
123 (delete-process find
))
125 (error "Cannot have two processes in `%s' at once" (buffer-name)))))
128 (kill-all-local-variables)
129 (setq buffer-read-only nil
)
131 (setq default-directory dir
132 find-args args
; save for next interactive call
133 args
(concat find-program
" . "
134 (if (string= args
"")
137 (shell-quote-argument "(")
139 (shell-quote-argument ")")
141 (if (equal (car find-ls-option
) "-exec ls -ld {} \\;")
142 (concat "-exec ls -ld "
143 (shell-quote-argument "{}")
145 (shell-quote-argument ";"))
146 (car find-ls-option
))))
147 ;; Start the find process.
148 (shell-command (concat args
"&") (current-buffer))
149 ;; The next statement will bomb in classic dired (no optional arg allowed)
150 (dired-mode dir
(cdr find-ls-option
))
151 (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
152 (set-keymap-parent map
(current-local-map))
153 (define-key map
"\C-c\C-k" 'kill-find
)
155 (make-local-variable 'dired-sort-inhibit
)
156 (setq dired-sort-inhibit t
)
157 (set (make-local-variable 'revert-buffer-function
)
158 `(lambda (ignore-auto noconfirm
)
159 (find-dired ,dir
,find-args
)))
160 ;; Set subdir-alist so that Tree Dired will work:
161 (if (fboundp 'dired-simple-subdir-alist
)
162 ;; will work even with nested dired format (dired-nstd.el,v 1.15
164 (dired-simple-subdir-alist)
165 ;; else we have an ancient tree dired (or classic dired, where
166 ;; this does no harm)
167 (set (make-local-variable 'dired-subdir-alist
)
168 (list (cons default-directory
(point-min-marker)))))
169 (set (make-local-variable 'dired-subdir-switches
) find-ls-subdir-switches
)
170 (setq buffer-read-only nil
)
171 ;; Subdir headlerline must come first because the first marker in
172 ;; subdir-alist points there.
173 (insert " " dir
":\n")
174 ;; Make second line a ``find'' line in analogy to the ``total'' or
175 ;; ``wildcard'' line.
176 (insert " " args
"\n")
177 (setq buffer-read-only t
)
178 (let ((proc (get-buffer-process (current-buffer))))
179 (set-process-filter proc
(function find-dired-filter
))
180 (set-process-sentinel proc
(function find-dired-sentinel
))
181 ;; Initialize the process marker; it is used by the filter.
182 (move-marker (process-mark proc
) 1 (current-buffer)))
183 (setq mode-line-process
'(":%s"))))
186 "Kill the `find' process running in the current buffer."
188 (let ((find (get-buffer-process (current-buffer))))
189 (and find
(eq (process-status find
) 'run
)
190 (eq (process-filter find
) (function find-dired-filter
))
192 (delete-process find
)
196 (defun find-name-dired (dir pattern
)
197 "Search DIR recursively for files matching the globbing pattern PATTERN,
198 and run dired on those files.
199 PATTERN is a shell wildcard (not an Emacs regexp) and need not be quoted.
200 The command run (after changing into DIR) is
202 find . -name 'PATTERN' -ls"
204 "DFind-name (directory): \nsFind-name (filename wildcard): ")
205 (find-dired dir
(concat find-name-arg
" " (shell-quote-argument pattern
))))
207 ;; This functionality suggested by
208 ;; From: oblanc@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Olivier Blanc)
209 ;; Subject: find-dired, lookfor-dired
210 ;; Date: 10 May 91 17:50:00 GMT
211 ;; Organization: University of Waterloo
213 (defalias 'lookfor-dired
'find-grep-dired
)
215 (defun find-grep-dired (dir regexp
)
216 "Find files in DIR containing a regexp REGEXP and start Dired on output.
217 The command run (after changing into DIR) is
219 find . -exec grep -s -e REGEXP {} \\\; -ls
221 Thus ARG can also contain additional grep options."
222 (interactive "DFind-grep (directory): \nsFind-grep (grep regexp): ")
223 ;; find -exec doesn't allow shell i/o redirections in the command,
224 ;; or we could use `grep -l >/dev/null'
225 ;; We use -type f, not ! -type d, to avoid getting screwed
226 ;; by FIFOs and devices. I'm not sure what's best to do
227 ;; about symlinks, so as far as I know this is not wrong.
229 (concat "-type f -exec " grep-program
" " find-grep-options
" -e "
230 (shell-quote-argument regexp
)
232 (shell-quote-argument "{}")
234 (shell-quote-argument ";"))))
236 (defun find-dired-filter (proc string
)
237 ;; Filter for \\[find-dired] processes.
238 (let ((buf (process-buffer proc
))
239 (inhibit-read-only t
))
240 (if (buffer-name buf
)
241 (with-current-buffer buf
245 (let ((buffer-read-only nil
)
247 (l-opt (and (consp find-ls-option
)
248 (string-match "l" (cdr find-ls-option
))))
249 (ls-regexp (concat "^ +[^ \t\r\n]+\\( +[^ \t\r\n]+\\) +"
250 "[^ \t\r\n]+ +[^ \t\r\n]+\\( +[0-9]+\\)")))
256 (while (looking-at "^")
259 ;; Convert ` ./FILE' to ` FILE'
260 ;; This would lose if the current chunk of output
261 ;; starts or ends within the ` ./', so back up a bit:
262 (goto-char (- beg
3)) ; no error if < 0
263 (while (search-forward " ./" nil t
)
264 (delete-region (point) (- (point) 2)))
265 ;; Pad the number of links and file size. This is a
266 ;; quick and dirty way of getting the columns to line up
267 ;; most of the time, but it's not foolproof.
270 (goto-char (line-beginning-position))
271 (while (re-search-forward ls-regexp nil t
)
272 (replace-match (format "%4s" (match-string 1))
274 (replace-match (format "%9s" (match-string 2))
277 ;; Find all the complete lines in the unprocessed
278 ;; output and process it to add text properties.
279 (goto-char (point-max))
280 (if (search-backward "\n" (process-mark proc
) t
)
282 (dired-insert-set-properties (process-mark proc
)
284 (move-marker (process-mark proc
) (1+ (point)))))))))
285 ;; The buffer has been killed.
286 (delete-process proc
))))
288 (defun find-dired-sentinel (proc state
)
289 ;; Sentinel for \\[find-dired] processes.
290 (let ((buf (process-buffer proc
))
291 (inhibit-read-only t
))
292 (if (buffer-name buf
)
293 (with-current-buffer buf
294 (let ((buffer-read-only nil
))
296 (goto-char (point-max))
297 (insert "\n find " state
)
298 (forward-char -
1) ;Back up before \n at end of STATE.
299 (insert " at " (substring (current-time-string) 0 19))
301 (setq mode-line-process
303 (symbol-name (process-status proc
))))
304 ;; Since the buffer and mode line will show that the
305 ;; process is dead, we can delete it now. Otherwise it
306 ;; will stay around until M-x list-processes.
307 (delete-process proc
)
308 (force-mode-line-update)))
309 (message "find-dired %s finished." (current-buffer))))))
312 (provide 'find-dired
)
314 ;;; find-dired.el ends here