* no way of escaping "*" in dired-do-shell-command injustice example
@ 2002-06-02 7:43 Dan Jacobson
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From: Dan Jacobson @ 2002-06-02 7:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
I was wondering why there was no output from
(dired-do-shell-command "sed 's/.*\\([a-z][a-z]+\\).*/\\1/'" nil (quote ("exercises7.in")))
when I suddenly realized "of course, those *'s, and there's no way of
escaping them. Wonder who invented that?"
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