From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "largo-linux" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: operating on dired marked files Date: 26 Jan 2006 15:36:24 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1138318584.044596.292590@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138318659 31665 80.91.229.2 (26 Jan 2006 23:37:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:37:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 27 00:37:36 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 1F2GgF-00084R-5J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:37:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F2Gj3-00010D-ID for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:40:25 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.118.17.76 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1138318589 18470 127.0.0.1 (26 Jan 2006 23:36:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:36:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=38.118.17.76; posting-account=g1rEsg0AAADlx-cYhMh6ZhhEzhSftALr Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:137241 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:32862 Archived-At: I would like to mark a number of files in dired and then use those files as arguments to a command. but when i try this in dired, i.e. i mark three files then hit ! and then perhaps a perl script. it seems only to output the results of the third file. is there a way to do this so that it executes script.pl file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt ??? thanks.