bug in emacs 18.57 dired

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From: Bruce Robert Larson
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1991 02:52

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I recently discovered that emacs dired will not delete
a file with a space in its name.  After marking the file
for deletion, the "expunge" will fail.

emacs-version is
GNU Emacs 18.57.1 of Wed Feb 20 1991 on kaspar (usg-unix-v)

Create a file with a space in its name and fire up emacs dired:
bash$  touch 'bad file'
bash$  emacs
...
M-x dired
...

Mark "bad file" for deletion in dired, and execute an
expunge.  After confirming that you want the file removed, 
dired will report that the deletion failed.

Ciao.

Bruce R Larson
Integral Resources
Milton, MA

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