From: Nicolas Richard <youngfrog@members.fsf.org>
To: raman <raman@google.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature Request: Function to quote filenames
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 17:34:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fv5hf7d3.fsf@members.fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p91twtxm8jn.fsf@google.com> (raman@google.com's message of "Wed, 24 Jun 2015 08:26:52 -0700")
Hi,
raman <raman@google.com> writes:
> (setq f (shell-quote-argument "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"))
> returns
> "Alice\\'s\\ Adventures\\ in\\ Wonderland"
>
> But invocations like
> (shell-command (format "ls %s" f))
>
> throw an error
It works for me after saying
touch "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
in a shell. What error do you get ?
> Would be nice if we had a shell-quote-filename elisp function that did
> all of the magic quoting.
If the aim is to quote for the shell, shell-quote-argument always did
the job for me.
--
Nico.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-24 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-24 15:26 Feature Request: Function to quote filenames raman
2015-06-24 15:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-06-24 15:34 ` Nicolas Richard [this message]
2015-06-24 16:50 ` T.V Raman
2015-06-24 18:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-24 20:24 ` T.V Raman
2015-06-24 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
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