From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Quting arguments for perl subprocess
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:44:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k6bxmxa3.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.125.1139947231.2856.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> I want to do something like
> (setq sts (apply 'call-process prog nil (current-buffer)
> t args))
> where prog="perl.exe" and the list args may contain things like
> file=some-file-name.txt
> The file name above may contain spaces. Is there a standard way in Emacs
> to quote the file name for this? I believe it would look different on
> different OS:es.
What makes you think they need to be quoted? There is no shell involved.
Stefan
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2006-02-14 21:44 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2006-02-15 9:07 Quting arguments for perl subprocess LENNART BORGMAN
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2006-02-14 20:00 Lennart Borgman
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