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Re: Copying/Moving a set of files whose filenames match a regular expres


From: Matthew Flaschen
Subject: Re: Copying/Moving a set of files whose filenames match a regular expression
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:39:48 -0400
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Nordlöw wrote:
> Hey again, Emacs Lovers.
> 
> How do I copy/move a set of files matching a regular expression from
> one directory to another? It seems like copy/move-file() takes only
> one file at a time.

It looks like you want dired-do-rename-regexp .

You have to mark the files before operating, and since you're moving
between directories you'll have to use absolute paths.

Matt Flaschen




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