Selecting Multiple Files

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# 2.4. Selecting Multiple Files

You sometimes want to delete, copy or move a number of files that are similar in some way. For example you may wish to move all of the .png graphics files from one directory to another. Konqueror makes this easy by letting you select multiple files based on similarities in their file names.

Use the Menubar Edit->Select... item or the hotkey Ctrl++. This brings up a little dialog box in which you enter a filename containing the wildcard characters *, which matches any number of characters, and ? which matches a single character. Press OK and Konqueror will highlight all files with matching names. For example;

- ``flag*.png`` will select all filenames starting with the letters "flag" and ending with "`.png`".

- ``memo?.txt`` will select `memo1.txt` and `memo9.txt` but not `memo99.txt`.

When you have selected a range of files, you can narrow down the selection by uing the Menubar Edit->Unselect... option or Ctrl+- to specify which of the selected files should be removed from the selection.

Use Ctrl+U or the Menubar Edit->Unselect All option or just left mouse button click on a clear area of the view to cancel the selection(s).

You can even invert the selection, that is deselect all selected files and select those that were previously unselected. Use the Menubar Edit->Invert Selection option or Ctrl+* to do this.

Once you have selected the right files then the normal delete, copy or move commands will act on all of the selected files at once.

| Depending on your keyboard type and locale, you will probably find that the Ctrl++, Ctrl+- and Ctrl+* hotkeys only work with the Numeric keypad +, - and * keys.

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