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From: Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Copying files with dired preserving structure
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 18:03:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4c4dklp.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> (raw)

Hi,

I want to classify some files contained in a directory hierarchy into
several groups, depending on their content.

So far I do a 'find-dired' to get a list of the available files and then
I mark each group by grepping into the files
(dired-mark-files-containing-regexp).

The problem is that if I try now to move those files elsewhere, the
hierarchy is lost, and besides that, files with the same name are
overwritten.

I have tried to "tar" the marked files to preserve the hierarchy, but
this approach is somewhat fragile, as I tend to use incorrect tar flags
and I risk corrupting my work when updating some of those "groups".

I am looking for a way to move marked files to a different place
preserving the directory structure with dired.

Thanks,

-- 
Alberto




             reply	other threads:[~2016-01-05 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-05 17:03 Alberto Luaces [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.1758.1452013450.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-10  5:06 ` Copying files with dired preserving structure Martin
2016-01-11  9:24   ` Alberto Luaces

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