;; The in-background argument is only needed in Emacs 18 where
;; shell-command doesn't understand an appended ampersand `&'.
;;;###autoload
-(defun dired-do-shell-command (command &optional arg)
+(defun dired-do-shell-command (command &optional arg file-list)
"Run a shell command COMMAND on the marked files.
If no files are marked or a specific numeric prefix arg is given,
the next ARG files are used. Just \\[universal-argument] means the current file.
output files usually are created there instead of in a subdir."
;;Functions dired-run-shell-command and dired-shell-stuff-it do the
;;actual work and can be redefined for customization.
- (interactive (list
- ;; Want to give feedback whether this file or marked files are used:
- (dired-read-shell-command (concat "! on "
- "%s: ")
- current-prefix-arg
- (dired-get-marked-files
- t current-prefix-arg))
- current-prefix-arg))
- (let* ((on-each (not (string-match "\\*" command)))
- (file-list (dired-get-marked-files t arg)))
+ (interactive
+ (let ((files (dired-get-marked-files t current-prefix-arg)))
+ (list
+ ;; Want to give feedback whether this file or marked files are used:
+ (dired-read-shell-command (concat "! on "
+ "%s: ")
+ current-prefix-arg
+ files)
+ current-prefix-arg
+ files)))
+ (let* ((on-each (not (string-match "\\*" command))))
(if on-each
(dired-bunch-files
(- 10000 (length command))