Re: multiple find and replace on windows using (gnu) find

[martin]

>>>>> md3bs  <d.e.1.mayfield@herts.ac.uk> writes:
 > Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:59:53 +0100
 > 
 > find-dired does not work because I have filenames with spaces in
 > them.
 > 
 > it does work when I use it on Linux

Hi,

works for me on w2k with cygwin.

find-dired executes the command
find . \( -iname '* *' \) -exec ls -ld {} \;.

 > How can I do multiple find and replace on windows. This should be a
 > common task. I can't seem to find any suggestions on the web.

Mark the files you found by find-dired in the *Find* buffer and apply
dired-do-rename-regexp (% R).

Martin
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