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Dired is a major mode that allows users to edit files and directories on a file system. It is essentially a file browser, with a wide range of features and an appearance similar to the `ls` command.

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How to format shell commands run from Dired?

I want to execute a formatted shell command on a file from within Dired. I am aware that I can use dired-do-shell-command to run a shell command on a selected file file by entering ! … <command> {} <additional-arguments> and reading the doc for dired-do-shell-command, but neither of those gave me the solution to achieve this. …
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