From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Florian Kaufmann" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: shell quoting Date: 8 Mar 2006 13:28:21 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1141853301.042091.314150@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1141853437 10939 80.91.229.2 (8 Mar 2006 21:30:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 21:30:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 08 22:30:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FH6Ed-0004C3-GK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 22:30:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FH6Ec-0002va-Pj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:30:18 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.209.139.160 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1141853306 14248 127.0.0.1 (8 Mar 2006 21:28:26 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 21:28:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=194.209.139.160; posting-account=Z44m8A0AAADexMuhVGiPev7CXD9-sJX0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:138038 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:33656 Archived-At: Hello Can anyone direct me to information how quoting works in (shell-command) and (shell). I am used to bash. For example I entered, as I would in bash find . -name '*cpp' But then I get File not found - '*cpp' If I omit the ' it doesn't really get better. The answer now is FIND: Parameter format not correct I have the GNU Emacs Manual 21.2, but coudnt find anything. Thank you Florian Kaufmann