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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: juri@jurta.org, Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ! in Dired--what was the outcome?
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:56:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5u0sx1xw8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CHtiG-0005sg-UB@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:43:24 -0400")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     Maybe I should mention a possible simpler solution, proposed in
>     private email by Johan Vromans to use {} instead of ?, in analogy with
>     the -exec argument of find(1).
>
>     mv {} .{}.uu
>
> That could be a good idea.  It would only cause a problem if you
> are trying to run `find'.  I guess you could use "{}" to pass
> that argument to `find'; by the time `find' sees it, the quotes
> will have been removed.
>
> Does anyone see a problem with this?

I think {} should be replaced by the file name, period.  That's simple
to understand.  If you really need {}, you can quote one of the two
characters, like '{'} or {\}.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-14  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-21 18:30 ! in Dired--what was the outcome? Richard Stallman
2004-09-21 19:48 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2004-09-22  1:44 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-09-22  2:05 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-03  1:19   ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-03  1:44     ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-04 15:18       ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-04 15:41         ` David Kastrup
2004-10-04 15:50           ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-04 17:27         ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-04  2:43     ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-05 18:04       ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-06 23:03         ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-07 16:45           ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-12 15:12 ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-13  3:01   ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-13  8:40     ` David Kastrup
2004-10-14  0:43     ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-14  8:26       ` Johan Vromans
2004-10-14  9:45         ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-14  9:56           ` Miles Bader
2004-10-14 16:37             ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-15 10:08             ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-15 18:06               ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-16 13:52                 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-14 23:30         ` Reinhard Kotucha
2004-10-15  4:13           ` Miles Bader
2004-10-15  8:12           ` David Kastrup
2004-10-14  8:56       ` David Kastrup [this message]
2004-10-14  9:45         ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-14 23:48         ` Reinhard Kotucha
2004-10-15  8:15           ` David Kastrup
2004-10-13 14:42   ` Richard Stallman

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