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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problem with find-file in --eval from command line
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:54:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877h62wv8y.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: loom.20110824T191832-915@post.gmane.org

Herbert Sitz <hsitz@nwlink.com> writes:
> In Linux I'm not sure how to do the quoting.  I tried this:
>
> --->  emacs --eval "( find-file "/home/somefile.org" )"

Provided you don't use any completely exotic shell, that is what Emacs
gets to see:

( find-file /home/somefile.org )

> And I get the error:
>
>    Symbols' value as variable is void:  /home/somefile\.org
>
> It seems there's some problem with the period in the filename, but maybe it's
> more than that.  Can anyone explain how to properly quote the Linux commandline
> version?  (File comes up fine if I just do find-file in a running emacs.)

A safe way to quote this particular invocation:

emacs --eval '( find-file "/home/somefile.org" )'

This only works in tcsh

emacs --eval "( find-file \\"/home/somefile.org\\" ) "

Bash needs this instead

emacs --eval "( find-file "'"'"/home/somefile.org"'"'" ) "

THere may be other solutions for bash, but I never really got the hang
of their quoting rules.


Regards,
Achim.
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next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-24 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-24 17:31 problem with find-file in --eval from command line Herbert Sitz
2011-08-24 17:54 ` Achim Gratz [this message]
2011-08-24 18:11   ` Herbert Sitz
2011-08-24 18:48   ` Viktor Rosenfeld
2011-08-25  1:45     ` Herbert Sitz
2011-08-26 12:45     ` Eric S Fraga
2011-08-26 15:16       ` Achim Gratz
2011-08-26 16:03         ` Eric S Fraga

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