From: Brad Collins <brad@chenla.org>
Subject: Re: dired question
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 05:49:25 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wkfz4b4p6y.fsf@chenla.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gvyis999bj8.fsf@norge.freeshell.org> (Stephen Dickey's message of "17 Oct 2004 23:20:59 +0000")
Stephen Dickey <bokonon@norge.freeshell_DOT_TLD> writes:
> 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?
> If not, I was thinking of advising dired-mark and
> dired-get-marked-files to do this. Does this approach seem
> reasonable?
What about ! which runs the command dired-do-shell-command?
,----[! -- dired-do-shell-command]
| Run a shell command command on the marked files.
| If no files are marked or a specific numeric prefix arg is given,
| the next arg files are used. Just C-u means the current file.
| The prompt mentions the file(s) or the marker, as appropriate.
|
| If there is a `*' in command, surrounded by whitespace, this runs
| command just once with the entire file list substituted there.
|
| If there is no `*', but there is a `?' in command, surrounded by
| whitespace, this runs command on each file individually with the
| file name substituted for `?'.
`----
There was no mention about the order -- but they seem to be passed in
the order they are marked. For example, I just marked three files
in dired :
* -rw-rw-rw- 1 deerpig root 21495 05-29 00:27 2003.11.21
* -rw-rw-rw- 1 deerpig root 6181 05-29 00:29 2003.12.18
* -rw-rw-rw- 1 deerpig root 987 05-29 00:28 2003.12.21
And then did a word count.
! wc -w
and got this result in the minibuffer.
3665 2003.11.21
1003 2003.12.18
143 2003.12.21
The order is the same as they were marked. Is that what you were
looking for? dired-do-shell-command is very handy indeed, especially
for deleting non-empty directories, changing permissions etc.
b/
--
Brad Collins <brad@chenla.org>, Bangkok, Thailand
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-18 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-17 23:20 dired question Stephen Dickey
2004-10-18 5:21 ` oliver
2004-10-18 5:39 ` Stephen Dickey
2004-10-18 14:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-18 18:05 ` Stephen Dickey
2004-10-18 18:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-18 21:05 ` Stephen Dickey
2004-10-18 21:34 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-10-18 22:49 ` Brad Collins [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-18 21:07 Dired question harven
2008-05-18 22:20 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-19 13:23 ` Xah Lee
2008-05-19 14:05 ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-05-19 19:11 ` harven
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=wkfz4b4p6y.fsf@chenla.org \
--to=brad@chenla.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.