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recursively move types of files
From: |
Charles L. Snyder |
Subject: |
recursively move types of files |
Date: |
Wed, 14 May 2008 17:22:38 -0700 (PDT) |
User-agent: |
G2/1.0 |
Hi
I have 2 separate but file management - related questions (emacs
22.2.1, mac leopard system):
1. I want to move all .pdb files from a folder (and all its
subfolders):
/Users/cls/ebooks
to another folder:
/Users/cls/pdb_files
I can find all the files with Alt-x find-dired RET ~/ebooks RET -name
"*.pdb" RET
but how do I mark and move the files within emacs?
2. I have a huge number of files named like this
"Report_work_01232008_blah.pdf", and I want to replace all the "_"
with " "
ie., "Report work 01232008 blah.pdf"
Some files have one underscore, some have many more.
When I Crtl-x d to the folder, and mark all files containing (% g RET
_ ) an underscore, there are several problems:
- it doesn't search and mark files in the the subdirectories / nested
folders
- only the first underscored in the filename is changed, not all of
them (how do I fix the regex for "_")
- I sometimes get a 'maximum buffer size exceeded'.
Thanks in advance
cls