Re: Mandrake regexp failure (in dired) -- library problem?

Mark> On my Mandrake 9.0 system, dired occassionally includes the Mark> date as part of the file name in creating the extents. Mark> (It's easy to see when this happens by sliding the mouse Mark> down the filenames and watching the highlighting.) This Mark> means none of the file operations (such as visiting or Mark> deleting) work because they try to operate on a file with a Mark> name like "Apr 23 2002 dired-mob.elc" rather than Mark> "dired-mob.elc". The problem is dired-re-month-and-time can also match the link count - owner - size field group, and does in your example: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 2943 Apr 23 2002 dired-mob.elc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ But this can only happen for a "few" sizes. Ie, the year expression is [12][90][0-9][0-9] which matches 2943. Note that the group is missing -- is that the way ls -l works on Mandrake? That absence is crucial, because the regexp will almost never match the owner - group - size field group. (The owner would have to be numerical in the range 0--39, and group symbolic. Could happen via eg tar or a networked file system, but unlikely.) And that's why it only happens in cooked examples on Red Hat and Debian.