From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chetan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: shell-command parameters Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:35:45 -0800 Organization: Noname Inc. Message-ID: <81eizhzxhq.fsf@myhost.sbcglobal.net> References: <67385669-7b4e-4bac-bc95-1f64689b6379@40g2000prx.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231162841 9087 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2009 13:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:40:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 05 14:41:53 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LJpiK-0003eL-In for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:41:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48388 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LJph5-00070b-85 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:40:35 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!flph200.ffdc.sbc.com!prodigy.net!flph199.ffdc.sbc.com!prodigy.com!flpi107.ffdc.sbc.com!flpi150.ffdc.sbc.com.POSTED!8e1d8614!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Emacs Gnus Cancel-Lock: sha1:HtP+J2Luom71qH7fU3HcDOEUHa8= Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.202.61.169 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net Original-X-Trace: flpi150.ffdc.sbc.com 1231162551 ST000 76.202.61.169 (Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:35:51 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:35:51 EST X-UserInfo1: SCSYASFGTRU[RZLYMJNBNFXBWR\HPCTL@XT^OBPLAH[\BQUBLNTC@AWZWDXZXQ[K\FFSKCVM@F_N_DOBWVWG__LG@VVOIPLIGX\\BU_B@\P\PFX\B[APHTWAHDCKJF^NHD[YJAZMCY_CWG[SX\Y]^KC\HSZRWSWKGAY_PC[BQ[BXAS\F\\@DMTLFZFUE@\VL Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165747 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:61078 Archived-At: rustom writes: > When I issue a shell command which is a pipeline such as say > > echo 1 2 3; echo 4 5 > > in a normal shell I should get > 1 2 3 > 4 5 > > However in windows for emacs shell-command (M-!) I get > 1 2 3;echo 4 5 > > Any clues?? > > The worst part is it sometimes works and sometimes not! Do you mean you get different results on Windows or between Windows and other systems? If it is the latter, isn't that the expected behaviour?