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> From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:24:51 +0100
> |
> | (shell "grep -i \"\(define \" ~/mydir/myfile?.lisp")
> 
> Much easier to use the single quote for the shell command.

But double quotes are more portable, as the Windows shells support
them, but don't support '...' quoting.