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Can Dired "find" ?

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From: Harel Barzilai
Date: Mon, 06 May 1991 05:51
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I know I can type "C-x d" and then give a regexp like "*foo*" ; but
dired does this *within a given directory* There is an ugly "find"
command I can barely use and don't understand well, which can look
thru subdirectories, recursively.

Is there a way to make dired to this, or does someone have code I
could put into my .emacs?

I'd like the hypothetical command (invoked by "C-u M-x dired" rather
than "M-x dired" say) to let me give a regexp for the file name (I
don't know which directory or [sub]*directory the file is in) and for
it to list out all matches. If I can specify the "parent" directory
(only search recursively *down* from that one) that would be nice, but
not crucial.

Maybe someone can just post even a macro which does this with "M-x
shell" by using "find" but in any case this would be a good feature to
add to emacs proper, i.e. dired, I think.

Many thanks,


Harel
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