William L. Jarrold wrote:
Thanks a bunch. Trouble is I get 0 returned. I wished
I got the string ...
echo Testing shell command
..returned.
Hmm, how to deal with the returned value issue. See
here is the problem...I just did...
(shell-command "echo Testing")<meta-x pretty-print-eval-of-last-sexp>
shell-command ouputs to a buffer. This is a reasonable thing since
commands can be interactive. However, to accomplish what you want, you
can just go grab that buffers content like so:
(shell-command "echo Testing")
(save-excursion
(set-buffer "*Shell Command Output*")
(buffer-substring (point-min)
(point-max)))
Thanks,
Bill
p.s. (shell-command "hi")<meta-x pretty-print-eval-of-last-sexp>
returns 127.
Hmmm. 127 must be some kind of unix error code?
shell-command usually returns t, as you probably know, t has no real
value...
Regards,
Anthony Liguoir
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