From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: james Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Copying a set of files whose filenames match a regular expression Date: 24 Apr 2007 07:18:48 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1177424328.498876.172090@t39g2000prd.googlegroups.com> References: <1177411820.780297.161800@t39g2000prd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177425389 5580 80.91.229.12 (24 Apr 2007 14:36:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:36:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 24 16:36:27 2007 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 1HgM80-0002ah-O4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:36:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgMDW-0005GH-Qt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:42:06 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!t39g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.175.225.24 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1177424335 25856 127.0.0.1 (24 Apr 2007 14:18:55 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:18:55 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1177411820.780297.161800@t39g2000prd.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t39g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=205.175.225.24; posting-account=QasW5A0AAAAxx4roVdpL6V55nt6Y9qFG Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147487 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:43090 Archived-At: On Apr 24, 5:50 am, Nordl=F6w wrote: > Hey again, Emacs Lovers. > > How do I copy/move a set of files matching a regular expression from > one directory to another? It seems like copy/move-file() takes only > one file at a time. > > Thanks in advance, > Per Nordl=F6w %m (dired-mark-files-regexp) then R (dired-do-rename) You can get a list of all the dired bindings by C-h m in a dired buffer