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Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired"
From: |
Masatake YAMATO |
Subject: |
Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired" |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Aug 2004 15:38:27 +0900 (JST) |
> Masatake YAMATO wrote:
>
> In the section "Shell Commands in Dired" of Emacs Info,
> I found following lines:
>
> * If the command string contains `?' surrounded by whitespace, the
> current file name is substituted for `?'. You can use `?' this
> way more than once in the command, and each occurrence is
> replaced. For instance, here is how to uuencode each file, making
> the output file name by appending `.uu' to the input file name:
>
> uuencode ? ? > ?.uu
>
> ?.uu is surrounded by whitespace. So above command line generated an
> unexpected file.
>
> You mean that the third ? is _not_ surrounded by whitespace? I indeed
> believe that the example is wrong. The third ? is not substituted
> and the output goes to a file named ?.uu.
What you believe is what I meant. The example is wrong. One of the
solution is to remove the example from the texi. However, dired users
may be happy if the users can do:
> uuencode ? ? > ?.uu
Yesterday I tried "tar cvf ?.tar ?"; and I got ?.tar file.
How do you think accepting `-' and `.' in addition to the whitespace?
I have considered more generic extension, however I have got no idea.
Masatake YAMATO
Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Eli Zaretskii, 2004/08/21
Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Richard Stallman, 2004/08/21