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Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command? |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Oct 2006 03:03:20 -0400 |
> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:08:08 +0200
> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:32:24 +0200
> >> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> >>
> >> Should arguments to
> >> start-process-shell-command/call-process-shell-command that are file
> >> names be quoted with shell-quote-arguments?
> >>
> >
> > Can you show examples of situations when this is an issue?
> >
>
> Something like this:
>
> (call-process-shell-command "ls" nil t nil "c:/program files/emacs")
I believe it's wrong for call-process-shell-command to quote
arguments, because it has no idea of their semantics. The doc string
of call-process-shell-command says:
Remaining arguments are strings passed as additional arguments for COMMAND.
There's no requirement here that each one of the "&rest ARGS" be a
separate command-line argument, is there? For example, I just tried
this:
(call-process-shell-command "ls" nil t nil "foo* bar*")
and got a listing of all files that match the two wildcards `foo*' and
`bar*'.
So I think that any quoting should be done by the caller of
call-process-shell-command, since only the caller knows what each
argument means.
- Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Lennart Borgman, 2006/10/11
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Andreas Schwab, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, David Kastrup, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Andreas Schwab, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, David Kastrup, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Andreas Schwab, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, David Kastrup, 2006/10/12