Re: grep and sort

[David Combs]

Not as a solution to this problem, but related to using
grep and getting an *Occur* like buffer.


Say I want to do a grep-like operation, but then
further filter it or process it in some way,
and M-x grep doesn't do just what I want.

Add in that I'm doing this on more than one file,
but want to be able to click-then-be-taken-to
in one long file.  Well, like this:

So, I use the grep *program*, 

egrep -n -H  regexp   file file file ... > loc.txt

and maybe in that, for easier viewing, I upper-case
some words, like print --> PRINT, etc.

Now, that -H gave me the filenames:

foo.txt:480:Hello there
foo.txt:9010:what are you doing here?
bar.txt:22:yada yada here yada
... 
etc.

That's what's in loc.txt.

THEN, in emacs, I do M-x get
and instead of filling in a regexp or whatever,
I give it this string:   cat loc.txt


Works like a charm!


David