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From: Matthias Meulien <cimosque@free.fr>
Subject: Re: emacs interface for the unix file(1) command
Date: 09 Oct 2003 23:27:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m28ynuqeyr.fsf@clarinde.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3llrutaar.fsf@tfkp14.physik.uni-erlangen.de

Roland Winkler <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:

> Is there also something that allows me to "do the right thing"
> according to the output of file?

Use `dired-do-shell-command' which is binded to the `!' key. For
example,

 ! file ? | grep PostScript - && gv ? RET

will open the current file with GhostView if and only if it is a
PostScript file; It works with list of files when using the process
mark.

Here `dired-aux' needs to be loaded.
-- 
Matthias

      reply	other threads:[~2003-10-09 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-09 14:17 emacs interface for the unix file(1) command Roland Winkler
2003-10-09 15:59 ` Matthias Meulien
2003-10-09 20:39   ` Roland Winkler
2003-10-09 21:27     ` Matthias Meulien [this message]

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