GNU bug report logs - #27496
26.0.50; dired-do-shell-command just checks the first wildcard

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 10:46:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: patch

Found in version 26.0.50

Done: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
To: 27496-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27496: 26.0.50;
 dired-do-shell-command just checks the first wildcard
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2017 22:13:34 +0900

Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com> writes:

> emacs -Q:
> ;; Evaluate following form.
> (let ((foo (make-temp-file "foo" 'dir))
>       (bar (make-temp-file "bar" 'dir)))
>   (dired foo)
>   (dired-up-directory)
>   (revert-buffer)
>   (dired-do-shell-command
>    (format "cp -r ? %s/?" bar) nil (dired-get-marked-files t nil)))
>
> ;; Should ask confirmation because "/?".
>
> If we change the last line to:
> (format "cp -r ./? %s/?" bar) nil (dired-get-marked-files t nil)))
> then it asks confirmation because "./?".
Fixed in master branch as commit
6e39940adba7b96dfe520caa52a1b92a1a84a84f
This bug report was last modified 7 years and 328 days ago.

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