Function: dired-do-copy-regexp

dired-do-copy-regexp is an autoloaded, interactive and byte-compiled function defined in dired-aux.el.gz.

Signature

(dired-do-copy-regexp REGEXP NEWNAME &optional ARG WHOLE-NAME)

Documentation

Copy selected files whose names match REGEXP to NEWNAME.

See function dired-do-rename-regexp for more info.

View in manual

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/dired-aux.el.gz
;;;###autoload
(defun dired-do-copy-regexp (regexp newname &optional arg whole-name)
  "Copy selected files whose names match REGEXP to NEWNAME.
See function `dired-do-rename-regexp' for more info."
  (interactive (dired-mark-read-regexp "Copy") dired-mode)
  (let ((dired-recursive-copies nil))	; No recursive copies.
    (dired-do-create-files-regexp
     #'dired-copy-file
     (if dired-copy-preserve-time "Copy [-p]" "Copy")
     arg regexp newname whole-name dired-keep-marker-copy)))