Emacs users can use wdired in a dired buffer instead.
M-x wdired-change-to-wdired-mode
(not to spoil the fun of creating a useful command-line tool with Issue9 ;)
M-x wdired-change-to-wdired-mode
(not to spoil the fun of creating a useful command-line tool with Issue9 ;)
- To move files to another directory (by typing their path, absolute or relative, as a part of the new filename).
- To change the target of symbolic links.
- To change the permission bits of the filenames (in systems with a working unix-alike `dired-chmod-program'). [...]
- To mark files for deletion, by deleting their whole filename.