From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Shell argument quoting woes Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:30:32 +0200 Message-ID: <87mwpag41z.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374759084 9276 80.91.229.3 (25 Jul 2013 13:31:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:31:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 25 15:31:25 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V2LdO-0003OB-Np for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:31:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34980 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2LdO-0003SS-Bb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:31:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51048) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2Ld4-0003Jl-Ra for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:30:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2Ld3-000625-Ld for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:30:50 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36518) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2Ld2-00061p-Ss for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:30:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V2Lcz-0002sI-Mh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:30:45 +0200 Original-Received: from g231225006.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.225.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:30:45 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by g231225006.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:30:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 58 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231225006.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lBtlETrOTWXAgrmzqNclbQVw90A= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92396 Archived-At: Hi List, assume this works in a shell ,------------------------ | $ prg -'fun "strg" num' `------------------------ with 'prg' being a shell-command (for bash on GNU/Linux) calling a program, 'fun' being a function defined in that program, 'strg' being a string argument to that function, and 'num' being a numeric argument to that function. The task is to make a string out of this in an Elisp program and give this 'cmd' as single argument to an Elisp function that then does something like #+begin_src emacs-lisp (let ((cmdlist (split-string cmd))) (set-buffer (apply 'make-comint "buffer-name" (car cmdlist) nil (cdr cmdlist) ) )) #+end_src Experimenting with (format "%s %S etc" ...) and (shell-quote-argument..) did not result in anything that works. It seems the outcome is either ,-------------------- | prg -'fun strg num' `-------------------- or ,------------------------ | prg -'fun \"strg\" num' `------------------------ or ,-------------------------------- | prg\\ -\\'fun\\ \\\"strg\\\"\\ num\\' `-------------------------------- or something similar, all resulting in errors. Trying to replace the single quotes in that line with double-quote did not work either. How can I quote such a 'cmd' string in a way that it finally arrives as ,------------------------ | $ prg -'fun "strg" num' `------------------------ ? -- cheers, Thorsten