From: adamsonj@email.unc.edu (Joel J. Adamson)
To: f.braennstroem@gmx.de
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dired command on marked files
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:04:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d4mhccrr.fsf@edna.homeunix.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g36dvo$h5b$1@tamarack.fernuni-hagen.de> (Fabian Braennstroem's message of "Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:13:01 +0200")
Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to use dired to create some plots using
> xmgrace/gracebat. My idea is to mark some files and plot
> them all into one diagram using something like:
>
> gracebat <file1> <file2> ... <file n> -pexec 'subtitle "<title>"' -hardcopy -hdevice EPS -printfile "<name>"
>
> Generally, I would use 'call-process' , but I have no clue, how I can create a call with variable number of files (depending on the marks).
> In the end, emacs should ask for the 'title' and 'name'.
Are you talking about a program, or interactively? Interactively, I
would use a shell for loop.
Joel
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-16 19:13 dired command on marked files Fabian Braennstroem
2008-06-16 21:04 ` Joel J. Adamson [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.13422.1213650548.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-06-18 19:08 ` Fabian Braennstroem
2008-06-18 21:10 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2008-06-20 19:54 ` Fabian Braennstroem
2008-06-19 3:27 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.13550.1213846072.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-06-20 19:56 ` Fabian Braennstroem
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