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Re: delete-file using wildcard


From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: delete-file using wildcard
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:28:12 -0000
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In article <jasa0a$lgf$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) wrote:

> In article <mailman.1326.1319881155.15868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
> Peter Dyballa  <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> wrote:
> >
> >Am 29.10.2011 um 09:54 schrieb ishi soichi:
> >
> >> I would like to delete files in a directory.
> >> When doing so with Linux command, we usually do,
> >> 
> >>> rm *
> >> 
> >> at that directory.
> >
> >You could use a shell-command that performs exactly this.
> 
> If not "rm *", what would that be?

Why not "rm *"?

M-! rm * RET

Or use a shell buffer and type "rm *" in it.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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