From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: my latest dired * wildcard accident Date: 13 Aug 2002 05:54:43 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87lm7brbdo.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029278295 30735 127.0.0.1 (13 Aug 2002 22:38:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:38:15 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17ekIm-0007zW-00 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 00:38:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17ekJh-0006cj-00; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:39:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17ekJQ-0006Q3-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:38:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17ekIu-000654-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:38:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailbox.ucsd.edu ([132.239.1.53] helo=mailbox1.ucsd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17ekIt-00064c-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:38:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de (mail.fu-berlin.de [160.45.11.165]) by mailbox1.ucsd.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7DMbxvl048695 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:37:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 00:37:58 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 00:37:58 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 61-227-47-149.hinet-ip.hinet.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 17 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 61-227-47-149.hinet-ip.hinet.net (61.227.47.149) X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1029278278 43905397 61.227.47.149 (16 [99749]) X-Orig-Path: 127.0.0.1!nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 X-MailScanner: Passed Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:3211 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:3211 Just wanted to note that I was very befuddled by the weird output from (dired-do-shell-command "sed 's/.*GET//' *" nil (quote ("al"))) the sed command had no effect (dired-do-shell-command "sed 's/.*GET//'" nil (quote ("al"))) no output until I did (dired-do-shell-command "echo sed 's/.*GET//' *" nil (quote ("al"))) revealing sed s/.alGET// al so what I'm saying is that that "*" is gonna trip people up and should be changed to $* or $1 or something less likely to get mistakenly used. Or at least it should be so configurable. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780