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 02:29:44 +0200 Message-ID: References: <868tlbqp8j.fsf@local.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496363442 19335 195.159.176.226 (2 Jun 2017 00:30:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 00:30:42 +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 02:30:34 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 1dGaU6-0004ec-EG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2017 02:30:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47209 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGaUB-0002aB-Sf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 20:30:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40696) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGaTb-0002Zz-Rd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 20:30:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGaTW-0000jx-Po for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 20:30:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=53257 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGaTW-0000jb-JA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 20:29:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dGaTN-0002g6-B3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2017 02:29:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:9vyUTTQETbAJdlKid/aof01SopU= 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:113320 Archived-At: Harry Putnam 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? ;) > > Not sure how you are marking them, ... but if > you use the d key and them the x key you > should get prompted if you want to delete > the file. He is marking them with keys * s which is `dired-mark-subdir-files'. x, or `dired-do-flagged-delete' doesn't work then (it does for d, `dired-flag-file-deletion', as you mention) but perhaps the OP was unaware of that method as well so why not. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573