From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nicolas Richard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: not-instantly-obvious method to get output of shell command to variable Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:28:38 +0200 Message-ID: <87zjfqx77t.fsf@geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be> References: <87y4vah3nv.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406795236 31347 80.91.229.3 (31 Jul 2014 08:27:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 08:27:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 31 10:27:08 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XClhc-0008Oq-8m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:27:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54977 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XClhb-0002fN-Om for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 04:27:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57341) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XClhI-0002eH-CS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 04:26:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XClh9-00023x-JI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 04:26:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mxin.ulb.ac.be ([164.15.128.112]:65427) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XClh9-00023T-DV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 04:26:39 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AicFAHv82VOkD4Xx/2dsb2JhbABZs2kBAQEBAQEGgQ+CY58pAYEcd4QEAQWBCQshJQ8BBIkJARSmTo4FAYdlF4V8giKHNRaENAWiao1Ng0s7 Original-Received: from mathsrv4.ulb.ac.be (HELO geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be) ([164.15.133.241]) by smtp.ulb.ac.be with ESMTP; 31 Jul 2014 10:26:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87y4vah3nv.fsf@debian.uxu> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Thu, 31 Jul 2014 00:39:48 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 164.15.128.112 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99015 Archived-At: > (dolist (f (split-string files)) (load-file f)) ) If you have filenames with spaces in them, this will fail. -- Nico.