Re: "source" shell commands

[David Kastrup]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu> writes:
>
>> Is there an elisp function to "source" a shell file; i.e. an
>> alternative to:
>>
>> (shell-command (concat "source \"" (expand-file-name "~/.rc") "\""))
>
> Sure.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defun mf-source (file)
>   (interactive "f")
>   (shell-command (concat "source \"" file "\"")))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Quoting is always good for trouble.  I'd rather use

(defun mf-source (file)
  (interactive "f")
  (call-process shell-file-name nil nil nil "source" file))

assuming that you don't care about the output.

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