Request for .el file to do special things

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From: Anil Joshi
Date: Sat, 18 May 1991 20:30

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Hi,
  I have a need for the following emacs macro.

  Given a string, search the current directory and visit the files that
  contain the string.

  What I am looking for is some thing similar to 

  vi `grep -l initQ *.[ch]`

  This seems to be a pretty useful macro to have.

  I can write my own but given the general nature of such a macro
  there is a high probability that it already exists.

Thanks in advance.

Anil
joshi@cs.uiuc.edu
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From: joshi@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi)
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Subject: Request for .el file to do special things
Summary: Does anybody have an .el file to visit files which contain a string?
Keywords: .el files, grep
Message-ID: <1991May18.203000.19969@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 18 May 91 20:30:00 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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