From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:49:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <je4pu9udee.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85y7rmou5t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:44:14 +0200")
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> For example, I just tried this:
>>
>> (call-process-shell-command "ls" nil t nil "foo* bar*")
>>
>> and got a listing of all files that match the two wildcards `foo*' and
>> `bar*'.
>
> I think that would be abuse of the command.
No, it isn't. The doc string says:
"Wildcards and redirection are handled as usual in the shell."
That implies that there shall be no quoting applied. You need to go lower
level to avoid metacharacter handling.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-12 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-11 20:32 Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command? Lennart Borgman
2006-10-12 4:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 6:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-10-12 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 7:44 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 8:15 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-10-12 8:24 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 9:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-12 8:49 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2006-10-12 9:27 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 9:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-12 9:49 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 9:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-12 10:02 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 11:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-12 11:30 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 18:50 ` Stephen Leake
2006-10-12 19:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-13 15:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-13 18:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-13 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-13 20:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-14 13:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-14 16:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-14 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-16 0:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-16 4:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-16 6:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-16 9:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-16 18:46 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-15 17:12 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-12 10:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 11:01 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 11:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 22:38 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-13 0:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-13 6:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-10-13 8:31 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-10-13 19:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 10:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 10:45 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 11:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 11:25 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 11:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 11:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-12 11:37 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 11:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-12 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-12 14:53 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 15:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-12 18:11 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-10-12 19:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-12 20:27 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-10-13 11:19 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-12 22:38 ` Richard Stallman
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