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Re: dired shell command on background
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Peter Dyballa |
Subject: |
Re: dired shell command on background |
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Sat, 13 May 2006 00:50:18 +0200 |
Am 12.05.2006 um 00:21 schrieb rodrigo lazo:
how could I make dired to execute a shell command on a file on the
background
How about this: you augment for GNU Emacs only the PATH environment
variable by one extra directory on top, which can be done in .emacs,
and in this extra directory you have little executable shell scripts
for each background command you need. You type ! or X on that file or
the marked files in the dired buffer and then enter one such script's
name, RET. This way Emacs would find for example the xpdf shell
script first, which has a contents à la:
#!/bin/sh
# some comments or description ...
/usr/local/bin/xpdf "$*" &
In case of xpdf it only accepts one file name. So it might be more
appropriate to write:
#!/bin/sh
# some comments or description ...
while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
/usr/local/bin/xpdf $1 &
shift
done
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