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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33 (defgroup find-dired nil
34 "Run a `find' command and dired the output."
38 (defcustom find-dired-find-program
"find"
39 "Program used to find files."
43 ;; find's -ls corresponds to these switches.
44 ;; Note -b, at least GNU find quotes spaces etc. in filenames
46 (defcustom find-ls-option
47 (if (eq system-type
'berkeley-unix
) '("-ls" .
"-gilsb")
48 '("-exec ls -ld {} \\;" .
"-ld"))
49 "*Description of the option to `find' to produce an `ls -l'-type listing.
50 This is a cons of two strings (FIND-OPTION . LS-SWITCHES). FIND-OPTION
51 gives the option (or options) to `find' that produce the desired output.
52 LS-SWITCHES is a list of `ls' switches to tell dired how to parse the output."
53 :type
'(cons (string :tag
"Find Option")
54 (string :tag
"Ls Switches"))
58 (defcustom find-grep-options
59 (if (or (eq system-type
'berkeley-unix
)
60 (string-match "solaris2" system-configuration
)
61 (string-match "irix" system-configuration
))
63 "*Option to grep to be as silent as possible.
64 On Berkeley systems, this is `-s'; on Posix, and with GNU grep, `-q' does it.
65 On other systems, the closest you can come is to use `-l'."
70 "Last arguments given to `find' by \\[find-dired].")
72 ;; History of find-args values entered in the minibuffer.
73 (defvar find-args-history nil
)
75 (defvar dired-sort-inhibit
)
78 (defun find-dired (dir args
)
79 "Run `find' and go into Dired mode on a buffer of the output.
80 The command run (after changing into DIR) is
82 find . \\( ARGS \\) -ls
84 except that the variable `find-ls-option' specifies what to use
85 as the final argument."
86 (interactive (list (read-file-name "Run find in directory: " nil
"" t
)
87 (read-string "Run find (with args): " find-args
88 '(find-args-history .
1))))
89 (let ((dired-buffers dired-buffers
))
90 ;; Expand DIR ("" means default-directory), and make sure it has a
92 (setq dir
(abbreviate-file-name
93 (file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name dir
))))
94 ;; Check that it's really a directory.
95 (or (file-directory-p dir
)
96 (error "find-dired needs a directory: %s" dir
))
97 (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create "*Find*"))
99 ;; See if there's still a `find' running, and offer to kill
100 ;; it first, if it is.
101 (let ((find (get-buffer-process (current-buffer))))
103 (if (or (not (eq (process-status find
) 'run
))
104 (yes-or-no-p "A `find' process is running; kill it? "))
107 (interrupt-process find
)
109 (delete-process find
))
111 (error "Cannot have two processes in `%s' at once" (buffer-name)))))
114 (kill-all-local-variables)
115 (setq buffer-read-only nil
)
117 (setq default-directory dir
118 find-args args
; save for next interactive call
119 args
(concat find-dired-find-program
" . "
120 (if (string= args
"")
122 (concat "\\( " args
" \\) "))
123 (car find-ls-option
)))
124 ;; Start the find process.
125 (shell-command (concat args
"&") (current-buffer))
126 ;; The next statement will bomb in classic dired (no optional arg allowed)
127 (dired-mode dir
(cdr find-ls-option
))
128 (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
129 (set-keymap-parent map
(current-local-map))
130 (define-key map
"\C-c\C-k" 'kill-find
)
132 (make-local-variable 'dired-sort-inhibit
)
133 (setq dired-sort-inhibit t
)
134 (set (make-local-variable 'revert-buffer-function
)
135 `(lambda (ignore-auto noconfirm
)
136 (find-dired ,dir
,find-args
)))
137 ;; Set subdir-alist so that Tree Dired will work:
138 (if (fboundp 'dired-simple-subdir-alist
)
139 ;; will work even with nested dired format (dired-nstd.el,v 1.15
141 (dired-simple-subdir-alist)
142 ;; else we have an ancient tree dired (or classic dired, where
143 ;; this does no harm)
144 (set (make-local-variable 'dired-subdir-alist
)
145 (list (cons default-directory
(point-min-marker)))))
146 (setq buffer-read-only nil
)
147 ;; Subdir headlerline must come first because the first marker in
148 ;; subdir-alist points there.
149 (insert " " dir
":\n")
150 ;; Make second line a ``find'' line in analogy to the ``total'' or
151 ;; ``wildcard'' line.
152 (insert " " args
"\n")
153 (setq buffer-read-only t
)
154 (let ((proc (get-buffer-process (current-buffer))))
155 (set-process-filter proc
(function find-dired-filter
))
156 (set-process-sentinel proc
(function find-dired-sentinel
))
157 ;; Initialize the process marker; it is used by the filter.
158 (move-marker (process-mark proc
) 1 (current-buffer)))
159 (setq mode-line-process
'(":%s"))))
162 "Kill the `find' process running in the current buffer."
164 (let ((find (get-buffer-process (current-buffer))))
165 (and find
(eq (process-status find
) 'run
)
166 (eq (process-filter find
) (function find-dired-filter
))
168 (delete-process find
)
172 (defun find-name-dired (dir pattern
)
173 "Search DIR recursively for files matching the globbing pattern PATTERN,
174 and run dired on those files.
175 PATTERN is a shell wildcard (not an Emacs regexp) and need not be quoted.
176 The command run (after changing into DIR) is
178 find . -name 'PATTERN' -ls"
180 "DFind-name (directory): \nsFind-name (filename wildcard): ")
181 (find-dired dir
(concat "-name " (shell-quote-argument pattern
))))
183 ;; This functionality suggested by
184 ;; From: oblanc@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Olivier Blanc)
185 ;; Subject: find-dired, lookfor-dired
186 ;; Date: 10 May 91 17:50:00 GMT
187 ;; Organization: University of Waterloo
189 (defalias 'lookfor-dired
'find-grep-dired
)
191 (defun find-grep-dired (dir regexp
)
192 "Find files in DIR containing a regexp REGEXP and start Dired on output.
193 The command run (after changing into DIR) is
195 find . -exec grep -s -e REGEXP {} \\\; -ls
197 Thus ARG can also contain additional grep options."
198 (interactive "DFind-grep (directory): \nsFind-grep (grep regexp): ")
199 ;; find -exec doesn't allow shell i/o redirections in the command,
200 ;; or we could use `grep -l >/dev/null'
201 ;; We use -type f, not ! -type d, to avoid getting screwed
202 ;; by FIFOs and devices. I'm not sure what's best to do
203 ;; about symlinks, so as far as I know this is not wrong.
205 (concat "-type f -exec grep " find-grep-options
" -e "
206 (shell-quote-argument regexp
)
209 (defun find-dired-filter (proc string
)
210 ;; Filter for \\[find-dired] processes.
211 (let ((buf (process-buffer proc
))
212 (inhibit-read-only t
))
213 (if (buffer-name buf
) ; not killed?
219 (let ((buffer-read-only nil
)
226 (while (looking-at "^")
229 ;; Convert ` ./FILE' to ` FILE'
230 ;; This would lose if the current chunk of output
231 ;; starts or ends within the ` ./', so back up a bit:
232 (goto-char (- end
3)) ; no error if < 0
233 (while (search-forward " ./" nil t
)
234 (delete-region (point) (- (point) 2)))
235 ;; Find all the complete lines in the unprocessed
236 ;; output and process it to add text properties.
238 (if (search-backward "\n" (process-mark proc
) t
)
240 (dired-insert-set-properties (process-mark proc
)
242 (move-marker (process-mark proc
) (1+ (point)))))
244 ;; The buffer has been killed.
245 (delete-process proc
))))
247 (defun find-dired-sentinel (proc state
)
248 ;; Sentinel for \\[find-dired] processes.
249 (let ((buf (process-buffer proc
))
250 (inhibit-read-only t
))
251 (if (buffer-name buf
)
254 (let ((buffer-read-only nil
))
256 (goto-char (point-max))
257 (insert "\n find " state
)
258 (forward-char -
1) ;Back up before \n at end of STATE.
259 (insert " at " (substring (current-time-string) 0 19))
261 (setq mode-line-process
263 (symbol-name (process-status proc
))))
264 ;; Since the buffer and mode line will show that the
265 ;; process is dead, we can delete it now. Otherwise it
266 ;; will stay around until M-x list-processes.
267 (delete-process proc
)
268 (force-mode-line-update)))
269 (message "find-dired %s finished." (current-buffer))))))
271 (provide 'find-dired
)
273 ;;; arch-tag: 8edece95-af00-4221-bc74-a4bd2f75f9b0
274 ;;; find-dired.el ends here