Re: Examining the output of a shell command?

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>]

Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com> writes:

> I would like to analyse the escape sequences emitted by a shell
> command. I have tried with `shell-command` and
> `shell-command-to-string`, but escape sequences are stripped away.

Nope. Try a better lie.

(shell-command-to-string "echo $RED hello $NORMAL")
--> "[31m hello [0m
"

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