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Re: dired-do-shell-command: cannot escape the *
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David Masterson |
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Re: dired-do-shell-command: cannot escape the * |
Date: |
02 Jan 2002 10:45:22 -0800 |
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>>>>> David Kastrup writes:
> dmaster@synopsys.com (David Masterson) writes:
>> >>>>> Richard Stallman writes:
>> >> What's wrong with having dired-do-shell-command ignore the * if
>> >> it is escaped with a backslash?
>> > Then people have to wonder about what to do if they want to put
>> > backslash-* into the shell command. In other words, this isn't
>> > as simple in practice as it sounds.
>> Hmmm. I suppose you could escape the backslash?
> Problem with that is that you would need to double every backslash
> passed into the shell. Since the shell itself interprests backslash
> for escapes (most shells, not all), this would seriously unshellize
> the syntax of stuff you write as a command.
Hmmm. Can anything be done with ^Q (ie. quoted-insert)?
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David Masterson dmaster AT synopsys DOT com
Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA
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