How to search through all the files in all the levels of your directories.

In emacs, what can be done to run a command?... like
find -type f -print0 |xargs -0 grep -i foo

The prompt appeared and an error message...
Fatal error (11).Segmentation fault

I'm trying to search thought all files in all the levels of my
directories

On 2005-03-05, (E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> In emacs, what can be done to run a command?... like
> find -type f -print0 |xargs -0 grep -i foo

Why are you bringing up emacs?

Did you try "find / -type f -exec grep -i foo {} \;"?



Come to think of it, what does this have to do with networking? For
that matter, what does it have to do with Linux? "find" is not a
Linux-specific program.
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On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 20:16:37 -0800, dsaklad wrote:

> In emacs, what can be done to run a command?... like
> find -type f -print0 |xargs -0 grep -i foo

Don't know much about emacs

> I'm trying to search thought all files in all the levels of my
> directories

Not sure where emacs figures into all this, but you can always use:
egrep -ri "is this a network question" .

This will search all files, in all directories, below your current root.
Note, the 'i' means case insensitive.

Mark

On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 20:16:37 -0800, dsaklad wrote:

> In emacs, what can be done to run a command?... like
> find -type f -print0 |xargs -0 grep -i foo
>
> The prompt appeared and an error message...
> Fatal error (11).Segmentation fault
>
> I'm trying to search thought all files in all the levels of my
> directories

If you run "man grep" on your system, you will be able to check whether
grep on your system supports the Recursive option.

IOW: you might be able to run,

grep -Ri foo *

as I've done on all my SuSE and RH systems for several years now. The -R
means recurse through directories.

However, I've always run this in a shell, never in emacs.

/FGB

Whats wrong with

"updatedb"

and

"locate"

???

And see where your space is being chowed.. , "du"