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harelb@cabot (Harel Barzilai) writes:

>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.

I agree that the find command is ugly.  But once you understand it,
it's easy to use.  I have an alias in my .cshrc file as follows:

	alias search "find . -name ''\!*'' -print"

so when I type

	search '*foo*'

it prints out all occurrences of *foo*, searching recursively through
subdirectories.

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

If you want an emacs command for this, here is one.  It simply invokes
the find-command.  You can put this code in your .emacs file and bind
it to some appropriate key:

(defun my-find(REGEXP)
  "Finds and lists files matching REGEXP in current directory"
  (interactive "sEnter file pattern: ")
  (shell-command (concat "find . -name \"" REGEXP "\" -print")))

>Many thanks,

>Harel

Enjoy,

Kjartan				(stefan@cs.cornell.edu)