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"Stephen Dickey" <bokonon@norge.freeshell_DOT_TLD> wrote in message 
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>I would like to run a command on files marked in a dired buffer in the
> order in which they were marked.  Is there a built in way to do this?

try dired-do-shell-command (bound to !). it is either part of dired itself 
or part of the add-on dired-x.

cheers, oli