From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: find a file and put it in a window
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 06:57:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9003-Mon26Jul2004065727+0300-eliz@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <S%ZMc.15276$%p4.7483@okepread04> (message from Jasen on Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:28:38 -0700)
> From: Jasen <xx@yy.zz>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:28:38 -0700
>
> I would like to find a file in a directory through a shell command:
>
> ;; Get the newest version of file
> (setq file (string (shell command "ls -tc
> C:\\dir1\\dir2\\dir3/file*.txt | head -1")))
>
> ;; Put the file is a windows
> (find-file-other-window file)
>
> The problem is that either Emacs or Windows can't interpret the full
> file name along with directory path correctly and I don't know how to
> fix it?
I think the problem is that the string you get includes a newline
after the name of the file. You need to remove that before you use
the string as a file name.
(You can see what string Emacs gets by using shell-command-to-string.)
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2004-07-26 2:28 find a file and put it in a window Jasen
2004-07-26 4:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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2004-07-26 5:34 ` Jasen
2004-07-26 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2004-07-26 2:28 Jasen
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