From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "rodrigo lazo" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: dired shell command on background Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 17:21:54 -0500 Message-ID: <111f73c80605111521g45d2a76tdd4d462b87089752@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147386136 14067 80.91.229.2 (11 May 2006 22:22:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 22:22:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 12 00:22:13 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FeJXu-0005jA-Js for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 May 2006 00:22:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FeJXt-0006BW-R7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 May 2006 18:22:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FeJXi-0006BP-KN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 May 2006 18:21:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FeJXf-0006BC-1x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 May 2006 18:21:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FeJXe-0006B9-SZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 May 2006 18:21:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.166.182] (helo=py-out-1112.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FeJZG-00068B-7x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 May 2006 18:23:34 -0400 Original-Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b29so337219pya for ; Thu, 11 May 2006 15:21:54 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=kHzkwad20SdKq4DPUZT70xw0/995UTmD+qrGi+2fyp7bJDimDZh/UXz6PS23ySeJihN1GLzq3Kmf0XGSS3nUy6NxBk+BAYX+8WTZZcZfpq2PheNJPan6vm6IrS5iqDi6wT84g4Yws40+LFS2cboqYLn7wc7Mo1a/MjsH0hAQ9zo= Original-Received: by 10.35.112.3 with SMTP id p3mr1740588pym; Thu, 11 May 2006 15:21:54 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.35.13.18 with HTTP; Thu, 11 May 2006 15:21:54 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:34983 Archived-At: hi everybody, how could I make dired to execute a shell command on a file on the background. Until now I was doing it with X (dired-do-shell-command) xpdf * & But there must be a better way. I've seen something called dired-do-background-shell-command on some pages about tree-dired but I have no idea what it is about Best regards -- Rodrigo Lazo (rlazo)