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From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Shell argument quoting woes
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:28:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2q6fyks.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cedb9081-fc0c-45e9-9b91-bb5e65211a4a@googlegroups.com

Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thursday, July 25, 2013 7:00:32 PM UTC+5:30, Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
> Seems to me that this inside lisp
>
>> ,------------------------
>> | prg -'fun \"strg\" num'
>> `------------------------
>> How can I quote such a 'cmd' string in a way that it finally arrives as
>
> should be this
>
>> 
>> ,------------------------
>> | $ prg -'fun "strg" num'
>> `------------------------
>
> at the shell... No?
>
> Anyway heres some (not too great) hacking:
> (with my recently learnt from Bastien's C-j!) 
>
> (setq cmd "prg -'fun \"strg\" num'")
> "prg -'fun \"strg\" num'"
> (setq x (split-string cmd "-"))
> ("prg " "'fun \"strg\" num'")
> (setq p (car (split-string (car x))))
> "prg"
> (setq arg (cadr x))
> "'fun \"strg\" num'"
> ; (make-comint "buffer-name" p nil (concat "-" arg))

I see, so the problem was actually the string-splitting by spaces and
not the quoting. Thanks!

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten




  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-25 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1758.1374759057.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-25 14:51 ` Shell argument quoting woes Rustom Mody
2013-07-25 15:28   ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1765.1374766754.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-25 16:46     ` Rustom Mody
2013-07-25 13:30 Thorsten Jolitz

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