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Subject: Re: why the never ending saga of getting dired to recognize varying
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jidanni@deadspam.com (Dan Jacobson) writes:

> Why the never ending saga of getting dired to recognize varying ls
> output.  Can't you tell dired that the filename is usually the last
> thing on a line?  Erm, no, I didn't look under the hood, but I just
> flashed on "isn't the filename is usually the last thing on a line?"

The problem is to define what is the last "thing".

Filenames may contain spaces.

kai
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