From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: fineman.web@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to move files in background with dired? Date: 4 Mar 2005 04:44:55 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1109940295.283265.65310@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109940266 19435 80.91.229.2 (4 Mar 2005 12:44:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:44:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 04 13:44:26 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D7CA2-00081T-CR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:44:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D7CT9-0000K9-IM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 08:03:51 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.225.224.65 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1109940299 3977 127.0.0.1 (4 Mar 2005 12:44:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:44:59 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.225.224.65; posting-account=IxXs6A0AAAAC1sBUOemgl9XkZH6C4Dre Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128964 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24509 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24509 You might be able to use dired-do-shell-command ( '!' in dired-mode ). Looks like you can even do it on groups of files... you could make it queue by using the * or do all operations concurrently using '?' (look at the docs for dired-do-shell-command). After hitting '!' on the file of interest I entered 'cp ? c:/temp &' and it worked just fine. Not sure how well it would work with tramp though since my guess is it just uses the relative path of the file and not the abosulte path.