From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rustom Mody Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Shell argument quoting woes Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:46:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <28e07c71-3500-4749-909f-ae01be7d1631@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374771017 26959 80.91.229.3 (25 Jul 2013 16:50:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:50:17 +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 18:50:19 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 1V2Ok6-0000kW-Q7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 18:50:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57205 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2Ok6-0002Gd-DF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:50:18 -0400 X-Received: by 10.236.140.40 with SMTP id d28mr12468893yhj.24.1374770804211; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:46:44 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.108.47 with SMTP id hh15mr277511igb.12.1374770804126; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:46:44 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!cb17no234997qab.0!news-out.google.com!dk8ni1421qab.0!nntp.google.com!cb17no234993qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.39.205; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.39.205 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:46:44 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200140 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:92406 Archived-At: On Thursday, July 25, 2013 8:58:51 PM UTC+5:30, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > I see, so the problem was actually the string-splitting by spaces and > not the quoting. Thanks! Actually ideal would be to split on only 1st space(s). In languages like python this is possible. I guess you can do it with a regexp in elisp: Python 2.7.5+ (default, Jun 2 2013, 21:21:29) [GCC 4.7.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> cmd="prg -'fun \"strg\" num'" >>> cmd.split(" ", 1) ['prg', '-\'fun "strg" num\'']