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| author | Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> | 2000-07-10 07:02:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> | 2000-07-10 07:02:03 +0000 |
| commit | ee6be958ad35fad124d85e455958c4766dc18b77 (patch) | |
| tree | e6ba42fde579ff58d1701253b323caa2e7bbe5ca /lisp/dired-aux.el | |
| parent | f01fd03b41bb41d735b1b99348811e34cc684940 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-ee6be958ad35fad124d85e455958c4766dc18b77.tar.gz | |
(dired-show-file-type): New function.
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/dired-aux.el')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/dired-aux.el | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/dired-aux.el b/lisp/dired-aux.el index 74c473ff7f0..8ff4128350d 100644 --- a/lisp/dired-aux.el +++ b/lisp/dired-aux.el @@ -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 @@ with the command \\[tags-loop-continue]." "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) |