Re: Redirecting standard output

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> Sorry, I don't follow: what string? what reparsing?
>
> I meant to use something like this:
>
>   (call-process shell-file-name nil nil nil
>               shell-command-switch 
>               (concat "pnmscale < " 
>                       (shell-quote-argument "foo") " > "
>                       (shell-quote-argument "bar")))

Here you put stuff in a string and let the shell reparse it.  I think
that, in general, if you can avoid doing that, you should, just like you
should avoid saying `(eval (read-from-string zot))', if practical.

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