Re: Using `call-process-shell-command' in `process-lines'

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:01:23 +0100
> > From: "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Emacs Devel <address@hidden>
> >
> > If I manually execute
> >
> >   (apply #'call-process "c:/bin/gnuwin32/bin/find.exe" nil
> > (get-buffer-create "output") nil '("c:/emacs/trunk/lisp/" "-name"
> > "*.el"))
> >
> > I get:
> >
> >   c:\bin\gnuwin32\bin\find.exe: paths must precede expression
> >   Usage: c:\bin\gnuwin32\bin\find.exe [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression]
>
> If this minor variant works:
>
>    (apply #'call-process "c:/bin/gnuwin32/bin/find.exe" nil
>      (get-buffer-create "output") nil '("c:/emacs/trunk/lisp/" "-name"
>      (shell-quote-argument "*.el")))
>
> it might give you a clue to the solution.  The call to
> shell-quote-argument should be limited to Windows only, since the
> Windows implementation of the library function called by call-process
> constructs a single command line out of all arguments, which of course
> means you need an extra pair of quotes.


Maybe you mean something like

  (apply #'call-process "find.exe" nil
         (get-buffer-create "output")
         nil
         (list "c:/emacs-lisp/old/" "-name"
               (shell-quote-argument "*.el" )))

but it does not work AFAICS.

There might be some clues in the message I sent before.