Re: ! in Dired--what was the outcome?

[Miles Bader]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:30:25AM +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> Maybe your syntax can be extended, for instance like this:
> 
>       convert {} {/ps$//}pdf
>       convert {} {/ps$/pdf/}

That's kind of dangerous because while I think "{}" is not usually used very
often in shell commands (except for find), once you start putting stuff in
between them, it's less obvious.

-Miles
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