How to archive all the DONE tasks using a single command

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To archive the DONE tasks i am using

C-c C-x a

command. The draw back is i have to manually move over the DONE tasks one by one and then archive it.

How to archive all the DONE tasks using a single command.

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There is now a command org-archive-all-done that is built into org-mode, and in org-archive.el.

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I found the direct "org-map-entries" method in a couple of these answers to be a little "fragile" for some reason in situations with more varied nesting and TODOs at multiple levels.

This method - generating a list and then archiving in reverse (to avoid changes in positioning) seems to cover every use case I've thrown at it. Sharing it here for anyone else that runs into trouble.

Note the "TODO" string match on the last line needs to match how you have your TODOs defined exactly (for example in a vanilla case, the match may be: "TODO=\"DONE\"").

(defun org-archive-done-tasks ()
  "Archive all tasks marked DONE in the file."
  (interactive)
  (mapc (lambda(entry)
          (goto-char entry)
          (org-archive-subtree))
        (reverse (org-map-entries (lambda () (point)) "TODO=\"★ DONE\"" 'file))))
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