Re: Redirecting standard output

[Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:19:57 +0200
>> 
>> I was trying to play around with the pbmplus programs from Emacs, and
>> that turns out to be somewhat awkward.  The programs all send output to
>> STDOUT, and there seems to be no way to easily redirect STDOUT with
>> `call-process'.
>
> You mean, redirect to a file?  Why do you need that?
>
> Anyway, redirecting to a temp buffer and then writing that buffer to a
> file should be good enough, right?
>
>> You can usually work around this by using `shell-command' or the like,
>> but when dealing with directories that contain arbitrary characters,
>> getting the quoting right can be somewhat icky.  (Although I found
>> `shell-quote-argument' just now while writing this.  :-)
>
> So, if you use shell-quote-argument, is there still a problem?
shell-quote-argument is sometime unusable with special characters:
(shell-quote-argument "Vidéos")
==> "Vid\\éos"

eshell:
ls (shell-quote-argument "Vidéos")
==>Vid\éos: No such file or directory



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