Re: Doing a file filter with grep

[Kim F. Storm]

"RealityMonster" <jan.sacharuk@gmail.com> writes:

> So I've been getting find and grep working on my WinXP system with
> emacs. I can finally properly search for files and search in files for
> the things that I want. I'd like, however, to put a file filter on it,
> so I can search just through .h files or .cpp files.
>
> On the command line, I'd do something like this:
>
> grep -r Pattern `find . -name *.cpp`

Try M-x rgrep

 (available only in Emacs 22).

>
> Any help here? Does emacs already do what I want somewhere else? M-x
> apropos find is understandably enormous.

So why didn't you try this :-)
   C-h a grep RET 


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