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Re: dired question
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Brad Collins |
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Re: dired question |
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Tue, 19 Oct 2004 05:49:25 +0700 |
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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/
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Brad Collins <brad@chenla.org>, Bangkok, Thailand
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