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Re: Delete marked files from dired


From: Marcin Borkowski
Subject: Re: Delete marked files from dired
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 06:56:13 +0200
User-agent: mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 26.0.50

On 2017-06-15, at 03:17, notbob <notbob@nothome.com> wrote:

> On 2017-06-02, notbob <notbob@nothome.com> wrote:
>> On 2017-06-02, Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> *c*Dx
>
> This still works, perfectly, but now, how do I "force" delete, so I
> don't hafta answer y/n fer all recursive (filled) directories?  ;)

How about "!rm -rRET" ?

(Also, for large directories it seems much faster than Dired's deletion
mechanism - after all, it's compiled C, not interpreted Lisp;-) - which
for larges sizes trumps the process overhead.)

Hth,

--
Marcin Borkowski



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