Re: start-process somehow expands *.org

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Thierry Volpiatto
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> *.org is the argument to --filepatt and it only takes one argument so
>>> this can't be done.
>> So maybe try:
>> (setq command '(arg1 arg2 arg3 etc...))
>> (apply 'start-process (downcase mode-name) outbuf "ruby.exe" command)
>
> Is not that exactly the same?
No, but anyway, in this case it won't work because wilcards syntax is
recognized only inside a shell, so i am afraid you
will have to use start-process-shell-command who understand *.ext.

>From same directory with file1.el and file2.el:

(apply 'start-process "test1" "*Test1*" "echo" (list "-n" "*.el"))
==> *.el

(start-process-shell-command "test1" "*Test1*" "echo -n *.el")
==> file1.el file2.el

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