From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Delete marked files from dired Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2017 03:06:35 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496365637 13108 195.159.176.226 (2 Jun 2017 01:07:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 01:07:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 02 03:07:13 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 1dGb3Y-00039o-WB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2017 03:07:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47284 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGb3e-0000fF-8M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 21:07:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52447) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGb38-0000f9-0a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 21:06:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGb34-0005cj-Su for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 21:06:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=42471 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGb34-0005bZ-Lx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 21:06:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dGb2x-0001Ye-6O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2017 03:06:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:I5Nywyd6zV/viRG+Sojz3KfqVRs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:113321 Archived-At: notbob wrote: > I've gotta lotta files to delete before > rsyncing to a thumb drive. I know how to mark > all files in a dir (* s) when in dired mode, > but do not know how to delete all those > marked files. Anybody? ;) By the way, you can find answer to questions such as this one with Emacs' `apropos' command. Do M-x apropos RET dired delete RET and see what you find. For this particular question `apropos-command' is even better because what you want to do is do something. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573