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 (defcustom find-dired-find-program
"find"
37 "Program used to find files."
41 ;; find's -ls corresponds to these switches.
42 ;; Note -b, at least GNU find quotes spaces etc. in filenames
44 (defcustom find-ls-option
45 (if (eq system-type
'berkeley-unix
) '("-ls" .
"-gilsb")
46 '("-exec ls -ld {} \\;" .
"-ld"))
47 "*Description of the option to `find' to produce an `ls -l'-type listing.
48 This is a cons of two strings (FIND-OPTION . LS-SWITCHES). FIND-OPTION
49 gives the option (or options) to `find' that produce the desired output.
50 LS-SWITCHES is a list of `ls' switches to tell dired how to parse the output."
51 :type
'(cons (string :tag
"Find Option")
52 (string :tag
"Ls Switches"))
56 (defcustom find-grep-options
57 (if (or (eq system-type
'berkeley-unix
)
58 (string-match "solaris2" system-configuration
)
59 (string-match "irix" system-configuration
))
61 "*Option to grep to be as silent as possible.
62 On Berkeley systems, this is `-s'; on Posix, and with GNU grep, `-q' does it.
63 On other systems, the closest you can come is to use `-l'."
68 "Last arguments given to `find' by \\[find-dired].")
70 ;; History of find-args values entered in the minibuffer.
71 (defvar find-args-history nil
)
74 (defun find-dired (dir args
)
75 "Run `find' and go into Dired mode on a buffer of the output.
76 The command run (after changing into DIR) is
78 find . \\( ARGS \\) -ls
80 except that the variable `find-ls-option' specifies what to use
81 as the final argument."
82 (interactive (list (read-file-name "Run find in directory: " nil
"" t
)
83 (read-string "Run find (with args): " find-args
84 '(find-args-history .
1))))
85 (let ((dired-buffers dired-buffers
))
86 ;; Expand DIR ("" means default-directory), and make sure it has a
88 (setq dir
(abbreviate-file-name
89 (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 ;; See if there's still a `find' running, and offer to kill
96 ;; it first, if it is.
97 (let ((find (get-buffer-process (current-buffer))))
99 (if (or (not (eq (process-status find
) 'run
))
100 (yes-or-no-p "A `find' process is running; kill it? "))
103 (interrupt-process find
)
105 (delete-process find
))
107 (error "Cannot have two processes in `%s' at once" (buffer-name)))))
110 (kill-all-local-variables)
111 (setq buffer-read-only nil
)
113 (setq default-directory dir
114 find-args args
; save for next interactive call
115 args
(concat find-dired-find-program
" . "
116 (if (string= args
"")
118 (concat "\\( " args
" \\) "))
119 (car find-ls-option
)))
120 ;; The next statement will bomb in classic dired (no optional arg allowed)
121 (dired-mode dir
(cdr find-ls-option
))
122 ;; This really should rerun the find command, but I don't
123 ;; have time for that.
124 (use-local-map (append (make-sparse-keymap) (current-local-map)))
125 (define-key (current-local-map) "g" 'undefined
)
126 ;; Set subdir-alist so that Tree Dired will work:
127 (if (fboundp 'dired-simple-subdir-alist
)
128 ;; will work even with nested dired format (dired-nstd.el,v 1.15
130 (dired-simple-subdir-alist)
131 ;; else we have an ancient tree dired (or classic dired, where
132 ;; this does no harm)
133 (set (make-local-variable 'dired-subdir-alist
)
134 (list (cons default-directory
(point-min-marker)))))
135 (setq buffer-read-only nil
)
136 ;; Subdir headlerline must come first because the first marker in
137 ;; subdir-alist points there.
138 (insert " " dir
":\n")
139 ;; Make second line a ``find'' line in analogy to the ``total'' or
140 ;; ``wildcard'' line.
141 (insert " " args
"\n")
142 ;; Start the find process.
143 (let ((proc (start-process-shell-command find-dired-find-program
(current-buffer) args
)))
144 (set-process-filter proc
(function find-dired-filter
))
145 (set-process-sentinel proc
(function find-dired-sentinel
))
146 ;; Initialize the process marker; it is used by the filter.
147 (move-marker (process-mark proc
) 1 (current-buffer)))
148 (setq mode-line-process
'(":%s"))))
151 (defun find-name-dired (dir pattern
)
152 "Search DIR recursively for files matching the globbing pattern PATTERN,
153 and run dired on those files.
154 PATTERN is a shell wildcard (not an Emacs regexp) and need not be quoted.
155 The command run (after changing into DIR) is
157 find . -name 'PATTERN' -ls"
159 "DFind-name (directory): \nsFind-name (filename wildcard): ")
160 (find-dired dir
(concat "-name '" pattern
"'")))
162 ;; This functionality suggested by
163 ;; From: oblanc@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Olivier Blanc)
164 ;; Subject: find-dired, lookfor-dired
165 ;; Date: 10 May 91 17:50:00 GMT
166 ;; Organization: University of Waterloo
168 (defalias 'lookfor-dired
'find-grep-dired
)
170 (defun find-grep-dired (dir args
)
171 "Find files in DIR containing a regexp ARG and start Dired on output.
172 The command run (after changing into DIR) is
174 find . -exec grep -s ARG {} \\\; -ls
176 Thus ARG can also contain additional grep options."
177 (interactive "DFind-grep (directory): \nsFind-grep (grep regexp): ")
178 ;; find -exec doesn't allow shell i/o redirections in the command,
179 ;; or we could use `grep -l >/dev/null'
180 ;; We use -type f, not ! -type d, to avoid getting screwed
181 ;; by FIFOs and devices. I'm not sure what's best to do
182 ;; about symlinks, so as far as I know this is not wrong.
184 (concat "-type f -exec grep " find-grep-options
" "
187 (defun find-dired-filter (proc string
)
188 ;; Filter for \\[find-dired] processes.
189 (let ((buf (process-buffer proc
)))
190 (if (buffer-name buf
) ; not killed?
196 (let ((buffer-read-only nil
)
203 (while (looking-at "^")
206 ;; Convert ` ./FILE' to ` FILE'
207 ;; This would lose if the current chunk of output
208 ;; starts or ends within the ` ./', so back up a bit:
209 (goto-char (- end
3)) ; no error if < 0
210 (while (search-forward " ./" nil t
)
211 (delete-region (point) (- (point) 2)))
212 ;; Find all the complete lines in the unprocessed
213 ;; output and process it to add text properties.
215 (if (search-backward "\n" (process-mark proc
) t
)
217 (dired-insert-set-properties (process-mark proc
)
219 (move-marker (process-mark proc
) (1+ (point)))))
221 ;; The buffer has been killed.
222 (delete-process proc
))))
224 (defun find-dired-sentinel (proc state
)
225 ;; Sentinel for \\[find-dired] processes.
226 (let ((buf (process-buffer proc
)))
227 (if (buffer-name buf
)
230 (let ((buffer-read-only nil
))
232 (goto-char (point-max))
233 (insert "\nfind " state
)
234 (forward-char -
1) ;Back up before \n at end of STATE.
235 (insert " at " (substring (current-time-string) 0 19))
237 (setq mode-line-process
239 (symbol-name (process-status proc
))))
240 ;; Since the buffer and mode line will show that the
241 ;; process is dead, we can delete it now. Otherwise it
242 ;; will stay around until M-x list-processes.
243 (delete-process proc
)
244 (force-mode-line-update)))
245 (message "find-dired %s finished." (current-buffer))))))
247 (provide 'find-dired
)
249 ;;; find-dired.el ends here