Re: dired command on marked files

[Joel J. Adamson]

Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
>     I would like to use dired to create some plots using
>     xmgrace/gracebat. My idea is to mark some files and plot
>     them all into one diagram using something like:
>
>     gracebat <file1> <file2> ... <file n> -pexec 'subtitle "<title>"'  
> -hardcopy -hdevice EPS -printfile "<name>"
>  
>    Generally, I would use 'call-process' , but I have no clue, how I can 
> create a call with variable number of files (depending on the marks).
>    In the end, emacs should ask for the 'title' and 'name'.

Are you talking about a program, or interactively?  Interactively, I
would use a shell for loop.

Joel

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