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* shell-command-to-string results in error
@ 2012-10-28 11:20 Rainer Stengele
  2012-10-28 14:46 ` Peter Dyballa
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Rainer Stengele @ 2012-10-28 11:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Hi!

Doing a simple

(shell-command-to-string "/bin/ls")

I receive this

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
   call-process(nil nil t nil "-c" "/bin/ls")
   shell-command-to-string("/bin/ls")
   eval((shell-command-to-string "/bin/ls"))
   eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
   eval-last-sexp(nil)
   call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)

Doing the same as root I get a correct result without error.

I do run:

GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10) of 2012-09-09 
on murphy, modified by Debian

I cannot find the problem. I aöready changed my login shell from zsh to 
sh but without success.

Can anybody help me please?

Cheers, Rainer




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