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From: "Eddward DeVilla" <eddward@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Search all `org-agenda-files'
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:34:32 -0500
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
>  If you do this in org-mode do you only search files in org-agenda-files
>  (and maybe their archives?).  If you scatter files around a lot how do
>  you locate them all for the search?
>
>  $ find $HOME -name '*.org' -o -name '*.org_archive' | xargs grep -n -e $REGEXP
>
>  is probably simpler.

I have org-mode store my agenda file list in a separate file instead
of the .emacs.  So I can do something like:

      grep ^foo$ `cat ~/.agenda_files`

I can't say I've had the need to.

Edd