I seethank you very much for explaining that.
On 15 January 2017 at 09:49, Alexander Burger wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 10:12:35PM +, dean wrote:
> > '`(chop "@.PDF")
> > BTW what's the difference between the two leading ticks (I recognise
> > apostrophe as quote macro).
>
> Right.
It's all running flawlessly.
On 15 January 2017 at 10:11, dean wrote:
> I seethank you very much for explaining that.
>
>
> On 15 January 2017 at 09:49, Alexander Burger wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 10:12:35PM +, dean wrote:
>> > '`(chop "@.PDF")
>> > BTW what's the difference be
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 10:12:35PM +, dean wrote:
> '`(chop "@.PDF")
> BTW what's the difference between the two leading ticks (I recognise
> apostrophe as quote macro).
Right. So it expands to the list ("@" "." "P" "D" "F"). This list in turn needs
to be quoted, because otherwise "@" is tried
Thank you very much for the explanation.
s/lunch/libc
On Jan 14, 2017 6:01 PM, "John Duncan" wrote:
> Wildcard expansion in UNIX is performed by the shell, so to experiment
> with arguments it is probably better to specify a directory as an argument
> and see the result. You can use a native call to the glob(3) lunch function
> if you
Wildcard expansion in UNIX is performed by the shell, so to experiment with
arguments it is probably better to specify a directory as an argument and
see the result. You can use a native call to the glob(3) lunch function if
you want pattern matching lookup like the shell, or use the output of
find
To help work out how to call pdftohtml with arguments I thought I'd try to
do "ls *.txt" in the form of (call 'ls "*.txt") but I've got something
wrong.
I have seen * specified as @ as in
'`(chop "@.PDF")
and that worked fine with match but not with ls.
BTW what's the difference between the two lea
