Sebastian Luque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I was trying to tar.gz some files I marked in dired with:
> ! tar -czvf filename.tar.gz RET > but only the first file makes it into the archive, whereas the same > command invoked from a shell (tar -czvf filename.tar.gz file1 file2 file3 > ...) does, of course, archive all the files. What might the problem be? Never mind, some patience and checking the first source of info (the manual) would have saved my post: ,-----[ (info "(emacs)Shell Commands in Dired") lines: 682 - 693 ] | * If you use `*' in the shell command, then it runs just once, with | the list of file names substituted for the `*'. The order of file | names is the order of appearance in the Dired buffer. | | Thus, `! tar cf foo.tar * <RET>' runs `tar' on the entire list of | file names, putting them into one tar file `foo.tar'. | | * If the command string doesn't contain `*', then it runs once _for | each file_, with the file name added at the end. | | For example, `! uudecode <RET>' runs `uudecode' on each file. `----- -- Sebastian P. Luque _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
