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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: recursively move types of files
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 01:04:44 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <g0gnac$nlp$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb8ebccf-a7c9-4d3e-a18b-1ff449c18db1@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>

Charles L. Snyder wrote:
> 1. I want to move all .pdb files from a folder (and all its
> subfolders):
> 
> /Users/cls/ebooks
> 
> to another folder:
>  /Users/cls/pdb_files
> 
> I can find all the files with Alt-x find-dired RET ~/ebooks RET -name
> "*.pdb" RET
> but how do I mark and move the files within emacs?

Since originally none of the files are marked, dired-toggle-marks (bound
to `t') marks them all.  Then dired-do-rename (bound to `R') will move
them.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA





  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-15  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-15  0:22 recursively move types of files Charles L. Snyder
2008-05-15  7:04 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2008-05-15 12:06 ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found] ` <mailman.11620.1210853177.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-05-15 12:15   ` Sven Joachim
2008-05-15 13:24     ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-05-15 13:21 ` Ken Goldman

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