Re: non-interactive shell

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:27:04 -0600
> From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
> 
> Apparently it's not possible to make a new directory with:
> 
>   (shell-command (concat "md " path))
> 
> where path is some string like
> 
> "\\a\\b\\c"

It works for me.  What happened on your machine, and which version of
Emacs did you use?

> Is it possible at all to make a directory under the default-directory 
> with elisp and using a variable rather than a literal string.

Of course, it is.  But I'd suggest to use Emacs primitives instead of
an external command:

  (make-directory path t)