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* Quting arguments for perl subprocess
@ 2006-02-14 20:00 Lennart Borgman
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From: Lennart Borgman @ 2006-02-14 20:00 UTC (permalink / raw)


I want to do something like

            (setq sts (apply 'call-process prog nil (current-buffer) t 
args))

where prog="perl.exe" and the list args may contain things like

    file=some-file-name.txt

The file name above may contain spaces. Is there a standard way in Emacs 
to quote the file name for this? I believe it would look different on 
different OS:es.

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* Re: Quting arguments for perl subprocess
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@ 2006-02-14 21:44 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Stefan Monnier @ 2006-02-14 21:44 UTC (permalink / raw)


> I want to do something like

>             (setq sts (apply 'call-process prog nil (current-buffer)
>             t args))

> where prog="perl.exe" and the list args may contain things like

>     file=some-file-name.txt

> The file name above may contain spaces.  Is there a standard way in Emacs
> to quote the file name for this?  I believe it would look different on
> different OS:es.

What makes you think they need to be quoted?  There is no shell involved.


        Stefan

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* Re: Quting arguments for perl subprocess
@ 2006-02-15  9:07 LENNART BORGMAN
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: LENNART BORGMAN @ 2006-02-15  9:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: help-gnu-emacs

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>

> > I want to do something like
> 
> >             (setq sts (apply 'call-process prog nil (current-buffer)
> >             t args))
> 
> > where prog="perl.exe" and the list args may contain things like
> 
> >     file=some-file-name.txt
> 
> > The file name above may contain spaces.  Is there a standard way 
> in Emacs
> > to quote the file name for this?  I believe it would look 
> different on
> > different OS:es.
> 
> What makes you think they need to be quoted?  There is no shell 
> involved.

Some smog in my brain I guess. Thanks, it is clearer now.

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