GNU bug report logs - #2536
23.0.90; ! in Dired does not shell-quote the command name and args

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Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 05:45:03 UTC

Severity: minor

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Message #10 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <2536 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#2536: 23.0.90;! in Dired does not shell-quote the command name and args
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 22:18:19 -0800

I said `shell-quote', but I meant `shell-quote-argument' or
`shell-quote-wildcard-pattern'. I'm not real clear on how to use the latter, or
whether either of them might help here. Trying them on my own didn't seem to
work. The `*' after the command/file input was taken as part of the command/file
name, provoking an error (no such file or directory).

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.

I also forgot to mention in the recipe to do this is in a Dired buffer.
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