From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Herbert Sitz Subject: Re: problem with find-file in --eval from command line Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:11:19 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <877h62wv8y.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52600) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwHvP-0003Yh-4W for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:11:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwHvN-0006qe-Vz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:11:39 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43220) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwHvN-0006qF-Pc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:11:37 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QwHvL-0005sQ-GI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:11:35 +0200 Received: from c-24-22-131-140.hsd1.wa.comcast.net ([24.22.131.140]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:11:35 +0200 Received: from hsitz by c-24-22-131-140.hsd1.wa.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:11:35 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Achim Gratz nexgo.de> writes: > > 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. Achim -- Thanks a lot, that Bash version works great. I'll have to check into quoting rules for the Linux shells. Regards, Herb