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Dired

Summary

Dired is a file manager[1]. Dired draws 20 Wikipedia views per month (file_manager category, ranking #10 of 15).[2]

Key Facts

  • Dired's image is recorded as Emacs Dired buffers.png[3].
  • Dired's instance of is recorded as file manager[4].
  • Dired's instance of is recorded as free software[5].
  • Dired's movement is recorded as free software movement[6].
  • Dired's developer is recorded as Stan Kugell[7].
  • Dired's copyright license is recorded as GNU General Public License, version 3.0[8].
  • Dired's subclass of is recorded as GNU Emacs[9].
  • Dired's subclass of is recorded as XEmacs[10].
  • Dired's subclass of is recorded as SXEmacs[11].
  • Dired's subclass of is recorded as Aquamacs[12].
  • Dired's operating system is recorded as Unix-like operating system[13].
  • Dired's operating system is recorded as Microsoft Windows[14].
  • Dired's operating system is recorded as macOS[15].
  • Dired's software version identifier is recorded as 7.17[16].
  • Dired's part of is recorded as GNU Project[17].
  • Dired's part of is recorded as GNU Emacs[18].
  • Dired's Commons category is recorded as Dired[19].
  • Dired's platform is recorded as GNU Emacs[20].
  • Dired's publication date is recorded as +1974-00-00T00:00:00Z[21].
  • Dired's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0blhbf[22].
  • Dired's official website is recorded as http://www.deinprogramm.de/sperber/software/dired/[23].
  • Dired's user manual URL is recorded as https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Dired.html[24].
  • Dired's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[25].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for Dired include MPDired[26], a Music Player Daemon client[27].

Why It Matters

Dired draws 20 Wikipedia views per month (file_manager category, ranking #10 of 15).[2] Dired has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

Entities named for Dired include MPDired[26], a Music Player Daemon client[27].

Related Entities

emacs-dirvish free software GNU Project macOS Microsoft Windows MPDired ranger.el Stan Kugell Unix-like operating system

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  20. [22] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Dired. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/dired
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_dired_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Dired}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/dired}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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