bug#57472: 29.0.50; dired: async command leads to error: file 'whatever.foo&wait' does not exist

[Tassilo Horn]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

Hi Lars,

>> 1. emacs -Q
>> 2. M-x dired RET ~ RET
>> 3. With point on file foo.txt do:
>> 3.1 M-x dired-do-async-shell-command RET xdg-open RET
>>     ;=> xdg-open: file 'foo.pdf&wait' does not exist
>
> I'm unable to reproduce this problem when using bash.
>
>> It seems I can prevent the error when I change the "&wait" strings to
>> " &wait", i.e., add a space in front.  Not sure if that should be done
>> similarly for the "&".
>>
>> And maybe this has something to do with my default shell which is
>> fish.
>
> Perhaps.  I've now added a space before the &, which works fine on
> bash, too.

I can confirm it works now for me and my fish.  Thanks a lot, I'm
closing the issue.

Bye,
Tassilo