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From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to get the output of a command?
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:31:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sihc8qid.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87389cr2tb.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:17:50 +0100")

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:

Hi Marcin,

> I'd like to run some shell command and then receive its output *as the
> value of some expression*.  IOW, I'd like to do this:
>
> (setq output (do-magic "echo Whatever"))
>
> so that `output's value is the string "Whatever".
>
> What should I put in place of do-magic?

,----[ C-h f shell-command-to-string RET ]
| shell-command-to-string is a compiled Lisp function in `simple.el'.
| 
| (shell-command-to-string COMMAND)
| 
| Execute shell command COMMAND and return its output as a string.
`----

Bye,
Tassilo



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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-21 16:17 How to get the output of a command? Marcin Borkowski
2014-11-21 16:31 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]

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