Re: Search all `org-agenda-files'

[Mario Peter <mario_peter@web.de>]

Bernt Hansen <bernt <at> norang.ca> writes:
[...]
> It seems to me that grep works just fine for this application.  I put
> all my org files under a single directory so that a single recursive
> grep for a regexp over *.org and *.org_archive gets me the information I
> want.  Then I use org to edit/read the files at the specific line
> matches.
> 
> 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

for me coming from planner and muse it is useful to search in my old
repositories too. Assuming everything is under ~/org I can easygoing search: 

(defun mpe-org-grep (string)
  "Grep wrapper for searches in org hierarchy"
  (interactive "sOrg Search (regexp): ")
  (let ((grep-find-command "find ~/org/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -e grep -nHi
-e "))
      (grep (concat grep-find-command string))))

regards, Mario