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bug#6561: dired-do-shell-command " *" vs. "*", too close for comfort
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Glenn Morris |
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bug#6561: dired-do-shell-command " *" vs. "*", too close for comfort |
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Date: |
Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:34:22 -0500 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Glenn Morris wrote:
> I still have no idea what:
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> To pass `*' by itself to the shell as a wildcard, type `*\"\"'.
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> is supposed to mean though.
I see the manual explains it better:
If you want to use `*' as a shell wildcard with whitespace around it,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
write `*""'. In the shell, this is equivalent to `*'; but since the `*'
is not surrounded by whitespace, Dired does not treat it specially.