Re: Examining the output of a shell command?

[Raffaele Ricciardi]

On 28/06/15 16:55, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > (shell-command-to-string "echo $RED hello $NORMAL")
> > --> "hello
> > "
>
> Check your shell init files.

I did that already:

   $ echo $RED
   \[\e[1;31m

Another puzzling behaviour:

   $ echo $RED
   \[\e[1;31m
   $ emacs -nw -Q
   M-: (getenv "RED") RET
   --> nil

What's up?  I am using Bash 4.3.30.