Re: Redirecting standard output

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:19:57 +0200
> 
> I was trying to play around with the pbmplus programs from Emacs, and
> that turns out to be somewhat awkward.  The programs all send output to
> STDOUT, and there seems to be no way to easily redirect STDOUT with
> `call-process'.

You mean, redirect to a file?  Why do you need that?

Anyway, redirecting to a temp buffer and then writing that buffer to a
file should be good enough, right?

> You can usually work around this by using `shell-command' or the like,
> but when dealing with directories that contain arbitrary characters,
> getting the quoting right can be somewhat icky.  (Although I found
> `shell-quote-argument' just now while writing this.  :-)

So, if you use shell-quote-argument, is there still a problem?