1 ;;; find-dired.el --- run a `find' command and dired the output
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu>,
6 ;; Sebastian Kremer <sk@thp.uni-koeln.de>
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30 ;; find's -ls corresponds to these switches.
31 ;; Note -b, at least GNU find quotes spaces etc. in filenames
33 (defvar find-ls-option
(if (eq system-type
'berkeley-unix
) '("-ls" .
"-gilsb")
34 '("-exec ls -ld {} \\;" .
"-ld"))
35 "*Description of the option to `find' to produce an `ls -l'-type listing.
36 This is a cons of two strings (FIND-OPTION . LS-SWITCHES). FIND-OPTION
37 gives the option (or options) to `find' that produce the desired output.
38 LS-SWITCHES is a list of `ls' switches to tell dired how to parse the output.")
41 (defvar find-grep-options
(if (eq system-type
'berkeley-unix
) "-s" "-q")
42 "*Option to grep to be as silent as possible.
43 On Berkeley systems, this is `-s'; on Posix, and with GNU grep, `-q' does it.
44 On other systems, the closest you can come is to use `-l'.")
47 "Last arguments given to `find' by \\[find-dired].")
49 ;; History of find-args values entered in the minibuffer.
50 (defvar find-args-history nil
)
53 (defun find-dired (dir args
)
54 "Run `find' and go into dired-mode on a buffer of the output.
55 The command run (after changing into DIR) is
57 find . \\( ARGS \\) -ls"
58 (interactive (list (read-file-name "Run find in directory: " nil
"" t
)
59 (read-string "Run find (with args): " find-args
60 '(find-args-history .
1))))
61 ;; Expand DIR ("" means default-directory), and make sure it has a
63 (setq dir
(file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name dir
)))
64 ;; Check that it's really a directory.
65 (or (file-directory-p dir
)
66 (error "find-dired needs a directory: %s" dir
))
67 (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create "*Find*"))
69 (kill-all-local-variables)
70 (setq buffer-read-only nil
)
72 (setq default-directory dir
73 find-args args
; save for next interactive call
74 args
(concat "find . "
77 (concat "\\( " args
" \\) "))
78 (car find-ls-option
)))
79 ;; The next statement will bomb in classic dired (no optional arg allowed)
80 (dired-mode dir
(cdr find-ls-option
))
81 ;; This really should rerun the find command, but I don't
82 ;; have time for that.
83 (use-local-map (append (make-sparse-keymap) (current-local-map)))
84 (define-key (current-local-map) "g" 'undefined
)
85 ;; Set subdir-alist so that Tree Dired will work:
86 (if (fboundp 'dired-simple-subdir-alist
)
87 ;; will work even with nested dired format (dired-nstd.el,v 1.15
89 (dired-simple-subdir-alist)
90 ;; else we have an ancient tree dired (or classic dired, where
92 (set (make-local-variable 'dired-subdir-alist
)
93 (list (cons default-directory
(point-min-marker)))))
94 (setq buffer-read-only nil
)
95 ;; Subdir headlerline must come first because the first marker in
96 ;; subdir-alist points there.
97 (insert " " dir
":\n")
98 ;; Make second line a ``find'' line in analogy to the ``total'' or
100 (insert " " args
"\n")
101 ;; Start the find process.
102 (let ((proc (start-process-shell-command "find" (current-buffer) args
)))
103 (set-process-filter proc
(function find-dired-filter
))
104 (set-process-sentinel proc
(function find-dired-sentinel
))
105 ;; Initialize the process marker; it is used by the filter.
106 (move-marker (process-mark proc
) 1 (current-buffer)))
107 (setq mode-line-process
'(":%s")))
110 (defun find-name-dired (dir pattern
)
111 "Search DIR recursively for files matching the globbing pattern PATTERN,
112 and run dired on those files.
113 PATTERN is a shell wildcard (not an Emacs regexp) and need not be quoted.
114 The command run (after changing into DIR) is
116 find . -name 'PATTERN' -ls"
118 "DFind-name (directory): \nsFind-name (filename wildcard): ")
119 (find-dired dir
(concat "-name '" pattern
"'")))
121 ;; This functionality suggested by
122 ;; From: oblanc@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Olivier Blanc)
123 ;; Subject: find-dired, lookfor-dired
124 ;; Date: 10 May 91 17:50:00 GMT
125 ;; Organization: University of Waterloo
127 (defalias 'lookfor-dired
'find-grep-dired
)
129 (defun find-grep-dired (dir args
)
130 "Find files in DIR containing a regexp ARG and start Dired on output.
131 The command run (after changing into DIR) is
133 find . -exec grep -s ARG {} \\\; -ls
135 Thus ARG can also contain additional grep options."
136 (interactive "DFind-grep (directory): \nsFind-grep (grep regexp): ")
137 ;; find -exec doesn't allow shell i/o redirections in the command,
138 ;; or we could use `grep -l >/dev/null'
140 (concat "! -type d -exec grep " find-grep-options
" "
143 (defun find-dired-filter (proc string
)
144 ;; Filter for \\[find-dired] processes.
145 (let ((buf (process-buffer proc
)))
146 (if (buffer-name buf
) ; not killed?
152 (let ((buffer-read-only nil
)
159 (while (looking-at "^")
162 ;; Convert ` ./FILE' to ` FILE'
163 ;; This would lose if the current chunk of output
164 ;; starts or ends within the ` ./', so back up a bit:
165 (goto-char (- end
3)) ; no error if < 0
166 (while (search-forward " ./" nil t
)
167 (delete-region (point) (- (point) 2)))
168 ;; Find all the complete lines in the unprocessed
169 ;; output and process it to add text properties.
171 (if (search-backward "\n" (process-mark proc
) t
)
173 (dired-insert-set-properties (process-mark proc
)
175 (move-marker (process-mark proc
) (1+ (point)))))
177 ;; The buffer has been killed.
178 (delete-process proc
))))
180 (defun find-dired-sentinel (proc state
)
181 ;; Sentinel for \\[find-dired] processes.
182 (let ((buf (process-buffer proc
)))
183 (if (buffer-name buf
)
186 (let ((buffer-read-only nil
))
188 (goto-char (point-max))
189 (insert "\nfind " state
)
190 (forward-char -
1) ;Back up before \n at end of STATE.
191 (insert " at " (substring (current-time-string) 0 19))
193 (setq mode-line-process
195 (symbol-name (process-status proc
))))
196 ;; Since the buffer and mode line will show that the
197 ;; process is dead, we can delete it now. Otherwise it
198 ;; will stay around until M-x list-processes.
199 (delete-process proc
)
200 (force-mode-line-update)))
201 (message "find-dired %s finished." (current-buffer))))))
203 (provide 'find-dired
)
205 ;;; find-dired.el ends here