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From: Steven Allen <steven@stebalien.com>
To: Jeff Clough <jeff@jeffclough.net>,
	Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: emacs-help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: eshell command substitution?
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2023 18:19:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87le9bun9f.fsf@stebalien.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87il4oyk2h.fsf@jeffclough.net>


Jeff Clough <jeff@jeffclough.net> writes:
> Progress! Running that command, I get the proper output from pkg-config,
> but it's wrapped in single quotes, which the compiler doesn't like.
>
> Playing with the options on the page you linked doesn't seem to help.

The issue is that eshell splits on lines [1], not words. A workaround is to
append `(:S)` [2]:

$ g++ base.cpp -o base ${pkg-config gtkmm-3.0 --cflags --libs}(:S)

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eshell/Dollars-Expansion.html
[2]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eshell/Argument-Modifiers.html



      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-12-31  2:19 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
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 [this message]

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