Subject: bug#2536: 23.0.90; ! in Dired does not shell-quote the command name and args

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:23:37 +0100

"Drew Adams" <[email-masked]> writes:

> In sum, I don't have any insight about what fix is needed, but there is
> definitely a problem, at least for MS Windows, where spaces in file names are
> common.

If you want to use shell meta characters on the command line it is your
own responsibility to add proper quoting.  Note that file name
completion (ie. minibuffer-complete-shell-command) will DTRT here.

Andreas.

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