Re: dired shell command on background

[Peter Dyballa]

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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  Pete


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