From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Delete marked files from dired Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 06:56:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87injxluhe.fsf@jane> References: <84fufjnefh.fsf@tm6592> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497502559 848 195.159.176.226 (15 Jun 2017 04:55:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 04:55:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 26.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: notbob Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 15 06:55:55 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dLMp0-0008S7-Pv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 06:55:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51942 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLMp4-0003P4-Gb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 00:55:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57321) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLMoc-0003Oq-Ut for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 00:55:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLMoZ-0003zr-TG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 00:55:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:41316) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLMoZ-0003ym-MX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 00:55:27 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59BE5E6A25; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 06:55:23 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WbjyqkN4rq-Z; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 06:55:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (static-dwadziewiec-jedenpiec7.echostar.pl [109.232.29.157]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7799AE69B9; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 06:55:14 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113467 Archived-At: On 2017-06-15, at 03:17, notbob wrote: > On 2017-06-02, notbob wrote: >> On 2017-06-02, Marco Wahl wrote: > >>> *c*Dx > > This still works, perfectly, but now, how do I "force" delete, so I > don't hafta answer y/n fer all recursive (filled) directories? ;) How about "!rm -rRET" ? (Also, for large directories it seems much faster than Dired's deletion mechanism - after all, it's compiled C, not interpreted Lisp;-) - which for larges sizes trumps the process overhead.) Hth, -- Marcin Borkowski