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In emacs dired, how can I run a command on multiple marked files?
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I have several files marked in dired-mode, and I'd like to run a command on (say on each of them. Is there a built-in way to do this, or do I need to write it myself? Basically I want to do something like but I want to eval an emacs expression rather than a shell command. I want to do this within e…
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I wrote something to do what I want, in case anyone else finds it useful: Update: Updated this solution with a more general purpose command. Now does what I want. I would be delighted if someone would point out to me that I didn't have to do this, a…
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