shell-command

[Matthias Pfeifer]

Hi There,

I have following issue and wonder if sombody can help out:

I am calling shell-command interactively without prefix argument. The help
text says

(shell-command COMMAND &optional OUTPUT-BUFFER ERROR-BUFFER)

Execute string COMMAND in inferior shell; display output, if any.
With prefix argument, insert the COMMAND’s output at point.

The command that I call copies a couple of files (around 20-30 files) via
scp. A sample line from the output of the command when I call it in a xterm
terminal window looks like this:

file    100%    123kb      123KB/s     00:00

However emacs keeps telling me "Shell command succeeded with no output."
and the *Shell Command Output* buffer is in fact empty. I wonder where the
output goes?

Matthias