From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Jeff Clough <jeff@jeffclough.net>
Cc: emacs-help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: eshell command substitution?
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 16:58:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877cl46hbx.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87msu1x70a.fsf@jeffclough.net> (Jeff Clough's message of "Sat, 23 Dec 2023 10:39:49 -0500")
On Sat, 23 Dec 2023 10:39:49 -0500 Jeff Clough <jeff@jeffclough.net> wrote:
> Good Morning!
>
> Does eshell have command substitution? If so, can someone point me to
> its syntax. My search-fu is failing me.
>
> My usual use case...
>
> $ g++ base.cpp -o base `pkg-config gtkmm-3.0 --cflags --libs`
>
> Backticks don't work, nor does $(...) unsurprisingly.
>
> I've gotta be missing something glaringly obvious here, but I can't find
> an answer.
This should work (see (info "(eshell) Dollars Expansion")):
$ g++ base.cpp -o base ${pkg-config gtkmm-3.0 --cflags --libs}
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-23 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-23 15:39 eshell command substitution? Jeff Clough
2023-12-23 15:58 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2023-12-23 16:12 ` Jeff Clough
2023-12-23 16:29 ` Stephen Berman
2023-12-23 16:34 ` Jeff Clough
2023-12-23 16:30 ` Jeff Clough
2023-12-23 16:46 ` Stephen Berman
2023-12-31 2:19 ` Steven Allen
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