{"id":13165,"date":"2024-08-05T12:34:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T10:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/?p=13165"},"modified":"2024-08-05T12:34:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T10:34:41","slug":"gnu-emacs-shell-commands-in-dired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2024\/08\/05\/gnu-emacs-shell-commands-in-dired\/","title":{"rendered":"GNU Emacs: Shell Commands in Dired"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/emacs\/manual\/html_node\/emacs\/Shell-Commands-in-Dired.html\">https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/emacs\/manual\/html_node\/emacs\/Shell-Commands-in-Dired.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I especially like this example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><code>$ uuencode ? ? &gt; `?`.uu<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It shows how to use the file (name) passed to the shell command together with a prefix and\/or a prefix on the command line. That&#8217;s not trivial, because around the &#8220;?&#8221; usually only whitespace is permitted to make the mechanism work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s a true and amazing life hack, something that makes my life easier almost every single day of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I especially like this example: $ uuencode ? ? &gt; `?`.uu It shows how to use the file (name) passed to the shell command together with a prefix and\/or a prefix on the command line. That&#8217;s not trivial, because around the &#8220;?&#8221; usually only whitespace is permitted to make the mechanism work. That&#8217;s a true [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[120],"tags":[1556],"class_list":["post-13165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emacs","tag-life-hack"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-3ql","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13170,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13165\/revisions\/13170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}