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Directory Files

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From: Anil Joshi
Date: Tue, 21 May 1991 21:31
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I am doing the following (in the scratch buffer):


(directory-files default-directory nil "*.[ch]")

and am getting back 

nil

where as there are files that match the reg-exp.

What am I doing wrong? 

I need the above for a macro which I want to write - 

'Replace all occurences of word "float" with word "double" in all the
*.c and *.h files in the current dirctory'

Is there a elisp macro which I can run in batch? Thanks in advance.
Anil
joshi@cs.uiuc.edu



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From: joshi@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Directory Files
Summary: What I am doing wrong?
Keywords: directory-files, match-regexp
Message-ID: <1991May21.213101.22515@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 21 May 91 21:31:01 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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