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5.7.3.2 Dired Search & Replace ¶

Search and replace in multiple marked files using the “/ Search & Replace›” menu item in casual-dired-tmenu. This will raise a menu of Dired commands that will work on marked files.

While most Dired commands use Emacs-style regular expression syntax ((elisp)Regular Expressions), there are two commands that instead take instead grep-style syntax:

• g Find regex… (dired-do-find-regexp)
• G Find regex and replace… (dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace)

The grep-style syntax is dependent on the grep implementation that is installed and used by Emacs.