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#10598
24.0.92; run dired-do-async-shell-command on multiple files individually
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Reported by: "Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:19:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Merged with 11815
Found in versions 24.0.92, 24.1
Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
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
This bug report was last modified 13 years and 2 days ago.
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