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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> AFAIK, you can `escape' the quotes, with:
> 
>   (shell "grep -i \"(define \" ~/mydir/myfile?.lisp")

That's got it, Giorgos.  Thank you. 
Seems I didn't escape often enough.

(shell "grep -i \"\(define \" ~/mydir/myfile?.lisp")