From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Roland Winkler" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10598: 24.0.92; run dired-do-async-shell-command on multiple files individually Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:17:16 -0600 Message-ID: <87liow9jdf.fsf@niu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327486737 13782 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2012 10:18:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:18:57 +0000 (UTC) To: 10598@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 25 11:18:53 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RpzwK-0003Ek-Ml for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:18:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46787 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RpzwK-000363-5a for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:18:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44291) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RpzwC-00035i-NH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:18:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rpzw4-0007gl-NR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:18:44 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:37237) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rpzw4-0007ga-IU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:18:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RpzwT-0006qp-Nj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:19:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Roland Winkler" Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:19:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 10598 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.132748668426268 (code B ref -1); Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:19:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 Jan 2012 10:18:04 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42623 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RpzvX-0006pd-P7 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:18:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60743) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RpzvW-0006pA-7U for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:18:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rpzv0-0007Z8-MK for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:17:31 -0500 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]:44092) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rpzv0-0007Z4-Kv for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:17:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44036) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rpzuv-0002hN-6k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:17:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rpzuq-0007YY-W5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:17:25 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:34108) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rpzuq-0007YU-Ua for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:17:20 -0500 Original-Received: from u010774.lc.ehu.es ([158.227.8.163]:53506 helo=regnitz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rpzuq-0002Yr-JY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:17:20 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:55981 Archived-At: Within dired, I want to run a shell command asynchronously on multiple files individually. Say, most specifically I tried to watch the postscript files foo.ps and bar.ps with gv. So I mark foo.ps and bar.ps in the dired buffer and hit & gv ? In the buffer *Async Shell Command* this gives me the error message /bin/bash: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `;' /bin/bash: -c: line 0: `gv foo.ps &;gv bar.ps' I get the same error message with the command dired-do-shell-command using ! gv ? & I am not the most experienced bash expert. But it seems that bash doesn't like the combination `&;'. Note also that there is no `&' for `gv bar.ps'. In a tty $ gv foo.ps & gv bar.ps & works fine for me (giving me what I expect to get within dired). Am I misunderstanding the docstrings of dired-do-shell-command and dired-do-async-shell-command (which are a bit confusing for me concerning how to run a shell command on multiple files) or is there a bug in the code? In GNU Emacs 24.0.92.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 2011-12-14 on regnitz Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10706000