Problem

I have a directory of files and need to find all of the one liners and add newlines to them

Solution

• mark every file in dired (not sure if there is a fast way to do this) by holding m from the top
• ! (dired-do-shell-command)
• wc -l
• M-x sort-lines ine the shell output buffer

The sorting was just useful because it grouped the one liners at the top of the buffer. But then I could cross reference names and open files from dired and make the change I wanted to make.

I tried to do this with consult-find because of this answer https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/170276, but it didn’t jump me to the file I needed to change. So there’s no added benefit to having the find do an -exec