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diff lisp/dired-aux.el @ 30129:ffb3f6c63ec0
(dired-show-file-type): New function.
| author | Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 10 Jul 2000 07:02:03 +0000 |
| parents | d651bfda1ace |
| children | 0e46bd381f99 |
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--- a/lisp/dired-aux.el Mon Jul 10 07:01:42 2000 +0000 +++ b/lisp/dired-aux.el Mon Jul 10 07:02:03 2000 +0000 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ;;; dired-aux.el --- less commonly used parts of dired -*-byte-compile-dynamic: t;-*- -;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1992, 1994, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Sebastian Kremer <sk@thp.uni-koeln.de>. ;; Maintainer: FSF @@ -1969,6 +1969,19 @@ "sQuery replace in marked files (regexp): \nsQuery replace %s by: \nP") (tags-query-replace from to delimited '(dired-get-marked-files))) +;;;###autoload +(defun dired-show-file-type (file &optional deref-symlinks) + "Print the type of FILE, according to the `file' command. +If FILE is a symbolic link and the optional argument DEREF-SYMLINKS is +true then the type of the file linked to by FILE is printed instead." + (interactive (list (dired-get-filename t) current-prefix-arg)) + (with-temp-buffer + (if deref-symlinks + (call-process "file" nil t t "-L" file) + (call-process "file" nil t t file)) + (when (bolp) + (backward-delete-char 1)) + (message (buffer-string)))) (provide 'dired-aux)