Rebuilt Emacs from the latest Git commit, doesn't happen anymore. Maybe it got fixed as a side-effect of this commit (06.10): 87301f2623 Better support for remote file names in dired Paul On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 at 04:15, Filipp Gunbin wrote: > On 24/10/2022 17:01 +0200, Paul Pogonyshev wrote: > > > GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.33, > > cairo version 1.16.0) of 2022-09-14 > > > > To reproduce: > > > > 1. $ emacs -Q /ssh:ANY-REMOTE-DIRECTORY-WITH-FILES > > 2. Move point to a file, let's say it is called XYZ > > 3. Run ! "ls" RET -> 'ls' gives an error, because it gets a Emacs-style > > remote path, which it of course doesn't understand. > > > > So, Emacs command doesn't fail per se, but it invokes shell commands in > > such a way they cannot succeed. > > > > For comparison, M-! "ls XYZ" RET works fine. > > > > Paul > > I cannot reproduce this with latest master, ssh-ing to Debian Bullseye. > > Perhaps you should give more details about your target machine. > > Thanks. >