From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using `call-process-shell-command' in `process-lines' Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:25:43 +0100 Message-ID: <474B39D7.3010509@gmail.com> References: <474B022C.8040508@gmail.com> <474B257F.3050709@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196112378 5051 80.91.229.12 (26 Nov 2007 21:26:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:26:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 26 22:26:24 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IwlT9-0005La-Eo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:26:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IwlSu-00029V-Be for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:26:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IwlSp-00026S-RS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:26:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IwlSo-00024r-Cp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:25:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IwlSn-00024K-W0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:25:58 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IwlSb-0006pe-90; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:25:45 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:65345 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IwlSY-0000VZ-5p; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:25:43 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 071125-0, 2007-11-25), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1IwlSY-0000VZ-5p. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1IwlSY-0000VZ-5p 34d07d6b985e177ce9075aa027e1e94b X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:84183 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:58:55 +0100 >> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" >> Cc: Stefan Monnier , >> Emacs Devel >> >> - This gives the error "paths must precede expressions" >> >> (apply #'call-process "find.exe" nil >> (get-buffer-create "output") >> nil >> '("c:/emacs-lisp/old/" "-name" "*.el" )) >> >> - The same for this in cmd.exe >> >> find -name *.el > > Yes, you need to quote the *.el, so that find.exe gets it intact. > >> - These two works: >> >> (apply #'call-process "find.exe" nil >> (get-buffer-create "output") >> nil >> '("c:/emacs-lisp/old/" "-name" "*l.el" )) >> >> (apply #'call-process "find.exe" nil >> (get-buffer-create "output") >> nil >> '("c:/emacs-lisp/old/" "-name" "m*.el" )) >> >> >> - and these works in cmd.exe: >> >> find -name *l.el >> find -name m*.el >> find -name "*.el" > > Sheer luck, the first tow ones. You _must_ quote the wildcard to get > predictable behavior. > >> Is anyone able to understand what is going on? > > I explained that in another message. I think there is more to it. I suspect that the find arg parsing code handles a single "*" differently and that this is a bug. (But I am not sure, that code takes long time to read.)