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Re: Delete marked files from dired


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: Delete marked files from dired
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2017 03:06:35 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux)

notbob wrote:

> I've gotta lotta files to delete before
> rsyncing to a thumb drive. I know how to mark
> all files in a dir (* s) when in dired mode,
> but do not know how to delete all those
> marked files. Anybody? ;)

By the way, you can find answer to questions
such as this one with Emacs' `apropos' command.
Do

    M-x apropos RET dired delete RET

and see what you find. For this particular
question `apropos-command' is even better
because what you want to do is do something.

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