From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Handling of quotes by start-process
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 17:43:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <861q821dcp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h6gyjn04.fsf@gmail.com> (message from André A. Gomes on Fri, 22 Mar 2024 17:37:47 +0200)
> From: André A. Gomes <andremegafone@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 17:37:47 +0200
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm launching a process via the (valid) command below
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> nix-shell -p sbcl --run 'sbcl --dynamic-space-size 3072'
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> via
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (start-process "test" (get-buffer-create "test") "nix-shell" "-p" "sbcl" "--run" "'sbcl --dynamic-space-size 3072'")
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> and it returns the error below:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> /tmp/nix-shell-13722-0/rc: line 3: sbcl --dynamic-space-size 3072: command not found
>
> Process test<1> exited abnormally with code 127
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Is this a bug or am I missing something? Thanks.
I think you don't need the '..' quotes: the ".." quotes already
specify a single string.
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2024-03-22 15:37 Handling of quotes by start-process André A. Gomes
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