🚀 go-pugleaf

>>> In article <DANJ1.91Jun25125334@ihburn.ATT.COM>,
>>> Dan_Jacobson@att.com writes:

Dan> Which reminds me about another thing: In dired it is difficult
Dan> sometimes to deal with files that start with a #.

Dan> e.g.,
Dan> (dired "~/.mail/#pos*")
Dan> gets the whole directory, not just the files that start with #pos.
Dan> Anyway, this is all probably explainable due to doing a sh -c "ls ...."
Dan> so no big deal.

Try backslashing the #, this works for me:

    (dired "~/.mail/\\#pos*")

[Note that interactively you enter only one backslash, but I need two
of them to represent one in a literal elisp string.] 

Compare this to

	$ cd; cd .mail; sh -c 'ls #*'

vs.

	$ cd; cd .mail; sh -c 'ls \#*'

-Sebastian
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Sebastian Kremer <sk@thp.Uni-Koeln.DE>
Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, F. R. of Germany