Dired Reference Card Commands on Files Marked or Specified (based on Dired in GNU Emacs 27) by the Prefix Commands marked with (DX) require dired-x copy file(s) C rename a file or move files to another directory R Entering and Exiting Dired change ownership of file(s) O change the group of the file(s) G run dired C-x d change mode of file(s) M dired the directory of the file you are editing C-x C-j (DX) print file(s) P quit dired q convert filename(s) to lower case % l convert filename(s) to upper case % u Motion Commands delete marked (as opposed to flagged) file(s) D compress or uncompress file(s) Z run info on file (DX) move up to previous line p I make symbolic link(s) move down to next line n S make relative symbolic link(s) move up to previous directory line < Y make hard link(s) move down to next directory line > H search files for a regular expression move to next marked file M-} A regexp query replace on marked files move to previous marked file M-{ Q byte-compile file(s) move up to previous subdirectory M-C-p B load file(s) move down to next subdirectory M-C-n L shell command on file(s) move to parent directory ^ ! asynchronous shell command on file(s) move to first child subdirectory M-C-d & Mouse Commands Flagging Files for Deletion Unmark commands remove delete flags visit file or directory Mouse_Button_2 flag file for deletion d flag all backup files (file names ending in ~) ~ Immediate Actions on Files flag all auto-save files # flag various intermediate files %& visit current file f flag numeric backups (ending in .~1~, .~2~, etc.) . view current file v execute the deletions requested (flagged files) x visit current file in other window o flag files matching a regular expression % d create a new subdirectory + compare file at point with the one at mark = Regular Expression Commands Marking and Unmarking Files mark filenames matching a regular expression % m copy marked files by regexp %C mark a file or subdirectory for later commands m rename marked files by regexp %R unmark a file or all files of a subdirectory u hardlink %H unmark all marked files in a buffer M-delete symlink %S mark files with a given extension *. symlink, with relative paths %Y mark all directories */ mark for deletion % d mark all symlinks *@ mark all executables ** Dired and Find invert marking t mark all files in the current subdir * s dired file(s) whose name matches a pattern M-x find-name-dired mark file names matching a regular expression *% dired file(s) that contain pattern M-x find-grep-dired change the marks to a different character * c dired file(s) based on find output M-x find-dired mark files for which Elisp expression returns t *( (DX) Modifying the Dired Buffer Getting Help dired help h insert a subdirectory into this buffer i dired summary (short help) and error log ? remove marked files from the listing k remove a subdir listing C-u k re-read all directories (retains all marks) g toggle sorting of current subdir by name/date s Copyright c 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. edit ls switches C-u s For GNU Emacs version 27 recover marks, hidden lines, and such (undo) Originally written May 2000 by Evgeny Roubinchtein, C-_ using refcard layout designed by Stephen Gildea. hide all subdirectories M-$ Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or hide or unhide subdirectory $ later. For more Emacs documentation, and the TEX source for this card, see the Emacs distribution, or https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs.