Re: delete-file using wildcard

[ishi soichi <soichi777@gmail.com>]

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Thanks for many solutions.
I appreciate it!

soichi

2011/10/29 Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>

> > I would like to delete files in a directory.
> > When doing so with Linux command, we usually do, rm *
> > at that directory.
> > the wildcard command does not seem work similarly in Emacs Lisp.
> > (delete-file (subseq (file-expand-wildcards "~/Desktop/*") -1))
> > doesn't work.  Could anyone help me out?
>
> Others have provided some solutions.  To do it interactively, Dired is your
> friend, as Jambunathan suggested.
>
> Another interactive solution is `icicle-delete-file'.  It's a multi-command
> version of `delete-file', which means that you can act on (delete, in this
> case)
> any number of files and directories with the same command invocation.
>
> For your example, just do this: M-x icicle-delete-file TAB C-!
>
> You can type a pattern to match, before hitting TAB (or S-TAB, if the
> pattern is
> a regexp).  The key `C-!' means act on *all* matching candidates.
>  Whatever file
> names currently match your minibuffer input (they are shown in
> *Completions*),
> those files are deleted.  Or use `C-mouse-2' or `C-RET' to act on only one
> candidate at a time.
>
> Change your input (pattern) to act on different files.  You can also
> change to
> another directory, using `C-c C-d'.  All during the same command
> invocation.
> Use C-g to end the command (or RET to act on one final candidate).
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Icicles_-_Multi-Commands#toc3
>
>

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