From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: recursively move types of files Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 01:04:44 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210835152 24445 80.91.229.12 (15 May 2008 07:05:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 07:05:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 15 09:06:22 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JwXXP-000829-2W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 09:06:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54201 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JwXWf-0003Jc-KZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 03:05:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JwXWP-0003JS-JU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 03:05:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JwXWN-0003JD-Ux for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 03:05:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45616 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JwXWN-0003JA-S3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 03:04:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:30726) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JwXWN-0007EY-F4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 03:04:59 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JwXWL-0002Nn-MG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 03:04:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JwXWF-0006Kt-NA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 07:04:51 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.190.29.163]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 May 2008 07:04:51 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 May 2008 07:04:51 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:54001 Archived-At: Charles L. Snyder wrote: > 1. I want to move all .pdb files from a folder (and all its > subfolders): > > /Users/cls/ebooks > > to another folder: > /Users/cls/pdb_files > > I can find all the files with Alt-x find-dired RET ~/ebooks RET -name > "*.pdb" RET > but how do I mark and move the files within emacs? Since originally none of the files are marked, dired-toggle-marks (bound to `t') marks them all. Then dired-do-rename (bound to `R') will move them. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA