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From: Viktor Rosenfeld <listuser36@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: problem with find-file in --eval from command line
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:48:08 +0200
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Hi,

This works on Bash (tested on 4.2.10) and should be easy to remember:

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

Cheers,
Viktor

Achim Gratz wrote:

> 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.