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no way of escaping "*" in dired-do-shell-command injustice example


From: Dan Jacobson
Subject: no way of escaping "*" in dired-do-shell-command injustice example
Date: 02 Jun 2002 15:43:14 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1

I was wondering why there was no output from
(dired-do-shell-command "sed 's/.*\\([a-z][a-z]+\\).*/\\1/'" nil (quote 
("exercises7.in")))
when I suddenly realized "of course, those *'s, and there's no way of
escaping them.  Wonder who invented that?"
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