From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Examining the output of a shell command? Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:13:19 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87zj3jnd9c.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <878ub3q18z.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435565725 28001 80.91.229.3 (29 Jun 2015 08:15:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 08:15:25 +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 Jun 29 10:15:22 2015 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 1Z9UDm-0003NA-DZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:15:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41024 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9UDl-0007P9-II for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 04:15:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: individual.net YjOxNAadWbyAG3aIyPgsJA7KKqXiYVY4AytDep1EfYugqjJdrx Cancel-Lock: sha1:NDBjMTk0MjRmNWI0YzFiMGI2OThlMTFmYWEwMGY2YzAzZmZlODljNg== sha1:F4FlcGf5MxAeLj2tI4ub+6iNLqg= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:212990 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:105276 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > "Pascal J. Bourguignon" > writes: > >> Of course, you need to define RED and NORMAL in your >> .bashrc! > > Try this: > > $ export NORMAL="[0m" > $ emacs -Q --batch --eval '(message (shell-command-to-string "echo $NORMAL"))' > > [0m Well you need to insert an escape: export NORMAL="[0m" Type C-q ESC in emacs, or C-v ESC in the terminal, before [0m. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk