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Re: Quting arguments for perl subprocess


From: LENNART BORGMAN
Subject: Re: Quting arguments for perl subprocess
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:07:17 +0100

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>

> > I want to do something like
> 
> >             (setq sts (apply 'call-process prog nil (current-buffer)
> >             t args))
> 
> > where prog="perl.exe" and the list args may contain things like
> 
> >     file=some-file-name.txt
> 
> > The file name above may contain spaces.  Is there a standard way 
> in Emacs
> > to quote the file name for this?  I believe it would look 
> different on
> > different OS:es.
> 
> What makes you think they need to be quoted?  There is no shell 
> involved.

Some smog in my brain I guess. Thanks, it is clearer now.





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