Re: Examining the output of a shell command?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
> writes:
>
>> Of course, you need to define RED and NORMAL in your
>> .bashrc!
>
> Try this:
>
>     $ export NORMAL="[0m"
>     $ emacs -Q --batch --eval '(message (shell-command-to-string "echo 
> $NORMAL"))'
>
>     [0m

Well you need to insert an escape: 

   export NORMAL="[0m"

Type C-q ESC in emacs, or C-v ESC in the terminal, before [0m.

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