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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.