From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using `call-process-shell-command' in `process-lines' Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:35:06 +0100 Message-ID: <474B4A1A.4070709@gmail.com> References: <474B022C.8040508@gmail.com> <474B257F.3050709@gmail.com> <474B39D7.3010509@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196116527 19456 80.91.229.12 (26 Nov 2007 22:35:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:35:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 26 23:35:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IwmY9-0005ec-Tx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:35:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IwmXu-0007Cs-Qm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:35:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IwmXq-0007B9-WC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:35:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IwmXp-00079v-BM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:35:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IwmXp-00079s-4i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:35:13 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IwmXk-000876-MZ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:35:09 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:64055 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IwmXi-000062-74; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:35:06 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 071125-0, 2007-11-25), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1IwmXi-000062-74. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1IwmXi-000062-74 657d1d21d2211b7c975de02681ce9aa0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:84194 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:04:02 +0200 >> From: Eli Zaretskii >> Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >>>>> find -name *l.el >>>>> find -name m*.el >>>>> find -name "*.el" >>>> Sheer luck, the first tow ones. You _must_ quote the wildcard to get >>>> predictable behavior. > > To give you a hint: whether unquoted wildcards work or not depends on > whether files in the directory where you run the above commands do or > do not have files that match the wildcards you give to `find'. That's > because the startup code which tries to expand wildcards leaves them > intact if they don't match anything in the current directory, which > has the same effect as quoting them. > > Take for example the following command: > > find c:/emacs -name *l.el > > Assuming c:/emacs is the root of the Emacs source tree, try to type > this once from the c:/emacs/lisp directory and then from a directory > that doesn't have any *.el files, and you will see different behavior > (the first one should err out). Actually that does not happen to me. You may of course still be right that quoting is required, but I have never argued that it is not required. I am just trying to tell how things work and obviously that may be important since the assumption you made is not entirely correct. > That's why I said that you _must_ quote wildcards to get predictable > behavior from `find'. >