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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Benedikt Tissot <benedikt.tissot@googlemail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: shell-command-to-string uses local shell for remote
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 08:36:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1gemdu7.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1554060490.28676.0@googlemail.com> (Benedikt Tissot's message of "Sun, 31 Mar 2019 21:28:10 +0200")

Benedikt Tissot <benedikt.tissot@googlemail.com> writes:

> Hello dear emacs maintainers,

Hi Benedikt,

> If the local used shell does not exist on the remote the
> shell-command-to-string function from simple.el does not work as
> expected. The reason for this is that the variable shell-file-name is
> wrong and therefore one only gets a string saying that the shell does
> not exist.

Have you tried a recent checkout from master? shell-command-to-string
uses the connection-local value of shell-file-name. On remote systems,
this is "/bin/sh" (or "/system/bin/sh" for the adb method) per default.

> Best regards,
> Benedikt Tissot

Best regards, Michael.



      reply	other threads:[~2019-04-01  6:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-31 19:28 shell-command-to-string uses local shell for remote Benedikt Tissot
2019-04-01  6:36 ` Michael Albinus [this message]

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