Re: shell-command-on-region

[Alexander Pohoyda]

> 
>     - shell-command looks like it's in the same class since it does
>       a fair bit of extra stuff that is rarely useful when called as
>       an Elisp function rather than an Emacs command.  It also has
>       the side effect of passing the command to `sh' which is great
>       when that's what you need, but otherwise has the severe
>       disadvantage that you have to be extra careful to correctly
>       quote all your arguments
> 
> When what you want to do is call a program with certain arguments,
> it is generally better to use call-process and avoid the shell.

OK, I see.  However, in my particular case I need to use a shell
because of pipes.

The problem is closed for me.  Thank you both very much!


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