searching across all/multiple org files

searching across all/multiple org files

[Xebar Saram]

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hi list

im looking for a way to do a simple search (though i could see times where
a org headline search would work) across multiple org file. what would be
nice is defining a folder before that has org files and search there

any ideas on this anyone?

thx alot in advance

Z

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Re: searching across all/multiple org files

[Subhan Michael Tindall]

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Org agenda searches  (C-c a <m|s|/ etc) search across  all files listed in org-agenda-files and org-agenda-text-search-extra-files
See http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/advanced-searching.html for some great info on searching
Another option is to use the shell, for example
Find –name ‘*.org’ <documents directory’ | xargs grep <search string>  (see man pages for more details)


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Subject: [O] searching across all/multiple org files

hi list

im looking for a way to do a simple search (though i could see times where a org headline search would work) across multiple org file. what would be nice is defining a folder before that has org files and search there

any ideas on this anyone?
thx alot in advance

Z

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Re: searching across all/multiple org files

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> writes:

> hi list
>
> im looking for a way to do a simple search (though i could see times
> where a org headline search would work) across multiple org file. what
> would be nice is defining a folder before that has org files and
> search there
>
> any ideas on this anyone?

not org specific, but 

,----[ C-h f helm-do-grep RET ]
| helm-do-grep is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in
| `helm-grep.el'.
| 
| It is bound to C-x c M-g s, <menu-bar> <tools> <Helm> <Tools> <Grep>.
| 
| (helm-do-grep)
| 
| Preconfigured helm for grep.
| Contrarily to Emacs `grep', no default directory is given, but
| the full path of candidates in ONLY.
| That allow to grep different files not only in `default-directory' but anywhere
| by marking them (C-<SPACE>). If one or more directory is selected
| grep will search in all files of these directories.
| You can also use wildcard in the base name of candidate.
| If a prefix arg is given use the -r option of grep (recurse).
| The prefix arg can be passed before or after start file selection.
| See also `helm-do-grep-1'.
`----

is very good at this.

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten