From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: no way of escaping "*" in dired-do-shell-command injustice example Date: 02 Jun 2002 15:43:14 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: kindly_remove_this_part_first_jidanni@ms46.hinet.net NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023006456 8196 127.0.0.1 (2 Jun 2002 08:27:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 08:27:36 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17EQi8-000285-00 for ; Sun, 02 Jun 2002 10:27:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17EQhh-0005Ry-00; Sun, 02 Jun 2002 04:27:09 -0400 Original-Received: from sjc3-1.relay.mail.uu.net ([199.171.54.122]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17EQgr-0005Qm-00 for ; Sun, 02 Jun 2002 04:26:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de by sjc3sosrv11.alter.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: mail.fu-berlin.de [160.45.11.165]) id QQmrmf18512 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 08:26:11 GMT Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 10:26:11 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 10:26:11 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 61-227-44-115.hinet-ip.hinet.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 6 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 61-227-44-115.hinet-ip.hinet.net (61.227.44.115) X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1023006371 33770297 61.227.44.115 (16 [99749]) X-Orig-Path: localhost.localdomain!nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:1748 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:1748 I was wondering why there was no output from (dired-do-shell-command "sed 's/.*\\([a-z][a-z]+\\).*/\\1/'" nil (quote ("exercises7.in"))) when I suddenly realized "of course, those *'s, and there's no way of escaping them. Wonder who invented that?" -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780