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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Examining the output of a shell command?
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 18:43:04 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r3ov6dpz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cvagmpFleaeU1@mid.individual.net>

> From: Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 17:03:52 +0200
> 
> On 28/06/15 16:55, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> (shell-command-to-string "echo $RED hello $NORMAL")
> >> --> "hello
> >> "
> >
> > Check your shell init files.
> 
> I did that already:
> 
>     $ echo $RED
>     \[\e[1;31m
> 
> Another puzzling behaviour:
> 
>     $ echo $RED
>     \[\e[1;31m
>     $ emacs -nw -Q
>     M-: (getenv "RED") RET
>     --> nil

Did you "export RED"?

Anyway, what I wanted to point out was that when you invoke the shell
from Emacs, it is a non-interactive session, which might get different
settings.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-28 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-28 12:47 Examining the output of a shell command? Raffaele Ricciardi
2015-06-28 13:57 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
     [not found] ` <mailman.5831.1435499861.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-28 14:03   ` Dan Espen
2015-06-28 14:20     ` Michael Heerdegen
     [not found]     ` <mailman.5833.1435501234.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-28 17:17       ` Dan Espen
2015-06-28 18:28         ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-06-29  1:39         ` Barry Margolin
2015-06-28 14:31   ` Raffaele Ricciardi
2015-06-28 14:55     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.5839.1435503359.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-28 15:03       ` Raffaele Ricciardi
2015-06-28 15:43         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found]         ` <mailman.5843.1435506194.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-28 15:51           ` Raffaele Ricciardi
2015-06-28 15:52     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-06-29  1:53       ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]       ` <mailman.5887.1435542902.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-29  8:13         ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-06-29 11:26   ` Raffaele Ricciardi
2015-06-29 12:08     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-06-29 14:51     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.5928.1435589507.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-29 15:56       ` Raffaele Ricciardi

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