Questions tagged [shell-command]
is for executing shell commands from Emacs (the default key binding is `M-!`). Shell output is shown in the echo area if it fits, in buffer `*Shell Command Output*` otherwise. Emacs comes with many supporting facilities for executing shell commands, including interactive execution, selective execution on a region, history cycling, directory tracking, connecting to serial ports, emulator options, and specifying remote hosts.
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Accessing Sage interpreters from Org Babel
I often use Sagemath within Org mode for my math notes, using the
ob-sagemath package. Sage can provide an interface to many underlying
interpreters, like GAP or Maxima, and I just figured out how to ...
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How to use sudo with shell-command-on-region?
Inside Emacs it's possible to run a shell command under sudo by doing the following:
(let ((default-directory "/sudo::"))
(shell-command "the-command-that-requires-sudo-access"))
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Why does wl-copy get stuck in emacs?
$ emacs -Q -nw /etc/motd
C-x h ;; mark-whole-buffer
ESC | wl-copy RET
and emacs gets stuck. Yes, the copy is done, but emacs is stuck until a CTRL+G breaks the logjam.
So what is the ...
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Why doesn't Emacs read my .profile?
I was having trouble launching cargo with M-x compile, and IIUC this meant the compile didn't had cargo in its path. This meant process-environment didn't contain cargo, and this in turn meant it didn'...
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`async-shell-command: Wrong type argument: sequencep, #<buffer *scratch*>`
This is not a question about switching to the scratch buffer but to understand why the error is produced and to correct the function.
By running the following command from command line, I can switch ...
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How to bind a custom compile command to a key?
In my .emacs file,I want to pass the current buffer file name to an external bash compile script called, "com", and bind it to a keyboard key, preferably, Ctrl-F5.
I have tried several ...
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Add a shell command to dired mode
I want to add a command to dired-mode, which executes a shell command on the highlighted file. For example, from Bash, I can run qvm-copy {FILENAME}. I would like to replicate this behavior, but from ...
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How to insert fontified git diff output into Emacs buffer?
I wrote this code:
(defun compare-string-test (String1 String2)
(interactive)
(let ((Temp1 (make-temp-file "gitdiff" nil nil String1))
(Temp2 (make-temp-file "gitdiff" ...
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"Aliasing" `ls` to `gls`
gls not ls:
My system has two forms of ls, the standard "old school" version of ls, and GNU ls which is available as gls. In my shell, I simply created an alias to use gls, but I have not ...
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Difficulty inserting current weather with org-roam dailies template
I am trying to get the current weather inserted into my org roam dailies.
Here is the default capture template I'm starting with, from
https://systemcrafters.net/build-a-second-brain-in-emacs/keep-a-...
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pass arguments in call-process as key/value
I try to run a command which takes some arguments and requires to pass some attributes to the API.
I understand that call-process takes args as strings but any invocation complains about
wrong-type-...
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Dired shell command with parameters
I want to provide additional command line options to a command in dired marked with '!',
eg how do I add '-V' to something like 'less'?
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Executing commands from a buffer
Following instructions here:-
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ExecuteExternalCommand
which says:
Using the whole buffer
If you are programming using an interpreted language, such as Perl or Python, ...
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shell-command-on-region doesn't execute an executable script named in exec-path
I am on MacOS (12.6.1, Monterey) running Emacs 29.1 (installed from https://emacsformacosx.com). I have a set of shell scripts that I have often use with shell-command-on-region (M-|); the scripts are ...
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Getting dired to open an xterm instance without waiting
I like to use dired-do-shell-command to open audio and video files in an independent terminal using the default command
gnome-terminal -- mplayer *
and this works great. But now I've changed my ...
