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30 Dired, the Directory Editor

Dired makes an Emacs buffer containing a listing of a directory, and optionally some of its subdirectories as well. You can use the normal Emacs commands to move around in this buffer, and special Dired commands to operate on the listed files. Dired works with both local and remote directories.

The Dired buffer is normally read-only, and inserting text in it is not allowed (however, the Wdired mode allows that, see Wdired). Ordinary printing characters such as d and x are redefined for special Dired commands. Some Dired commands mark or flag the current file (that is, the file on the current line); other commands operate on the marked files or on the flagged files. You first mark certain files in order to operate on all of them with one command.

The Dired-X package provides various extra features for Dired mode. See Dired-X in Dired Extra User’s Manual.

You can also view a list of files in a directory with C-x C-d (list-directory). Unlike Dired, this command does not allow you to operate on the listed files. See Directories.

Enter    How to invoke Dired.
Navigation    Special motion commands in the Dired buffer.
Deletion    Deleting files with Dired.
Flagging Many Files    Flagging files based on their names.
Visit    Other file operations through Dired.
Marks vs Flags    Flagging for deletion vs marking.
Operating on Files    How to copy, rename, print, compress, etc. either one file or several files.
Shell Commands in Dired    Running a shell command on the marked files.
Transforming File Names    Using patterns to rename multiple files.
Comparison in Dired    Running diff by way of Dired.
Subdirectories in Dired    Adding subdirectories to the Dired buffer.
Subdir Switches    Subdirectory switches in Dired.
Subdirectory Motion    Moving across subdirectories, and up and down.
Hiding Subdirectories    Making subdirectories visible or invisible.
Updating    Discarding lines for files of no interest.
Find    Using find to choose the files for Dired.
Wdired    Operating on files by editing the Dired buffer.
Image-Dired    Viewing image thumbnails in Dired.
Misc    Various other features.

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