Function: dired-safe-switches-p

dired-safe-switches-p is a byte-compiled function defined in dired.el.gz.

Signature

(dired-safe-switches-p SWITCHES)

Documentation

Return non-nil if string SWITCHES does not look risky for Dired.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/dired.el.gz
;; Beware of "-l;reboot" etc.  See bug#3230.
(defun dired-safe-switches-p (switches)
  "Return non-nil if string SWITCHES does not look risky for Dired."
  (or (not switches)
      (and (stringp switches)
           (< (length switches) 100)    ; arbitrary
           (string-match-p "\\` *-[- [:alnum:]]+\\'" switches))))