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Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired"
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired" |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Aug 2004 13:02:38 +0300 |
> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 19:40:12 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden>
>
> * 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.
I think we had better fix the code instead of removing the example.
It seems a pity that the example doesn't work.
Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired",
Eli Zaretskii <=
Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Richard Stallman, 2004/08/21
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", David Kastrup, 2004/08/21
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/21
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/21
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/21
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Masatake YAMATO, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", David Kastrup, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Masatake YAMATO, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", David Kastrup, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Masatake YAMATO, 2004/08/22