From: Santanu <thisissantanu@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What's wrong with this code??
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 00:09:34 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47907911-2186-4668-81d3-e0475196ade1@n37g2000prc.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87eiha5ipf.fsf@fh-trier.de
On May 18, 2:20 am, Andreas Politz <poli...@fh-trier.de> wrote:
> Santanu <thisissant...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Hello Everybody,
>
> > Can you tell me what is wrong with this code:
> > -------------------
> > (setq
> > go-packages-installed
> > (split-string
> > (shell-command-to-string
> > "cd $GOROOT/src/pkg && find . -iname *.go | sed -e 's|^\./||g; s|/
> > [^/]*\.go||g' | sort | uniq"\
> > )))
>
> You have to escape the backslash characters, because of string
> expansion.
Spot on. Thank you very much.
BTW, can you also explain a bit what it means when I don't put the
double backslash character, and instead use a single backslash?
I ask this because my original code (the incorrect one above) did
produce some correct results.
Regards,
Santanu
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2010-05-18 7:09 ` Santanu [this message]
2010-05-18 14:37 ` What's wrong with this code?? Frédéric Perrin
2010-05-18 17:34 ` Santanu
2010-05-18 21:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-19 8:57 ` Santanu
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