Lennart, Thanks for the reply
On 9/28/07, Lennart Borgman (gmail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott Jaderholm wrote: > > Search: > > 1 - directory for file named "string" > > Just to answer you I tried it (I am actually not using find-dired myself): > > M-x find-dired > Run find in directory: YOUR-DIR > Run find (with args): -name YOUR-FILE > > It worked for me - so I learned something ;-) I get this result: c:/Scott/: find . "(" -name test ")" -exec ls -ld "{}" ";" Access denied - . File not found - -NAME File not found - TEST File not found - ) File not found - -EXEC File not found - LS File not found - -LD File not found - {} File not found - ; find exited abnormally with code 1 at Fri Sep 28 15:44:36 > > > 2 - directory for file containing "string" > > Try lgrep or rgrep: > > M-x lgrep > Search for (default "bla"): YOUR-STRING > That works for me, but I get the following error 16 times in *Compile-Log* when I type M-x lgrepRET: Warning: `error' called with 1 args to fill 0 format field(s) Thank you, Scott