RE: shell command output question

["Bingham, Jay" <Jay.Bingham@compaq.com>]

The following will work as long as there is only one new line in the string and it is at the end of the string:

(setq load-path (cons (split-string (shell-command-to-string
	"your_command") "\n") load-path)))

From what you are trying to do I assume that "your command" will be something like "echo $PATH".  You can access environment variables with the command getenv

So you could accomplish the same with:

(setq load-path (cons (getenv "PATH") load-path)))


J_)
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 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Noel Yap [mailto:yap_noel@yahoo.com] 
Sent:	Wednesday, 24 April, 2002 9:50 p
To:	Niklas Morberg
Cc:	help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject:	Re: shell command output question

--- Niklas Morberg <niklas.morberg@axis.com> wrote:
> Noel Yap <yap_noel@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > I would like to have the following in my .emacs:
> >   (setq load-path (cons STUFF load-path))
> >
> > where STUFF is the output of a command line.  Does
> > anyone know how I would be able to do this?
> 
> shell-command-to-string might be your friend. Does
> this work?
> 
> (setq load-path (cons (shell-command-to-string
> 		       "your_command") load-path))

It sort of does.  I just need to strip off the CR at
the end.  Would you happen to know how I can do that?

Thanks,
Noel


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