Re: running a command that requires two parameters on a file

[Barry Margolin]

In article <87fvh98xi3.fsf@bach.histomat.net>,
 Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> wrote:

> I am in the habit of bringing up ! in order to run a command such as
> xpdf on a selected file.

I assume you're talking about Dired.

> 
> The problem comes when I want to run the command wkhtmltopdf, for it
> calls for two parameters. That is, emacs won't let me do: ! wkhtmltopdf
> input.html output.pdf.
> 
> Is there a way I can do this withou raising a terminal to make the
> conversion with it?
> 
> Haines Brown

Write a script that takes one argument and fills in the other argument. 
Then run: ! scriptname

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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