Re: Dired 7.6 bug: transformers in shell commands

sandy@gandalf.sissa.it
Tue, 8 Nov 1994 10:36:34 +0100


>>>>> On Tue, 08 Nov 1994 17:42:45 +0900,
      Ishikawa Ichiro <ichiro@ccsr.u-tokyo.ac.jp> said:

 > "cmd1 *f; cmd2 *f" doesn't work,
 > while "cmd1 *f ; cmd2 *f" works.

 > Is this an intended feature?

In the file dired-shell.el is the variable

(defvar dired-shell-command-separators '(32 ?| ?> ?< ?&)
  "Defines the start of a string specifying a word in a shell command.")

Add ?; to this list, and it should work.  Will make the patch for
1.14.  Thanks, Sandy