Re: Examining the output of a shell command?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 17:03:52 +0200
> 
> On 28/06/15 16:55, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> (shell-command-to-string "echo $RED hello $NORMAL")
> >> --> "hello
> >> "
> >
> > Check your shell init files.
> 
> I did that already:
> 
>     $ echo $RED
>     \[\e[1;31m
> 
> Another puzzling behaviour:
> 
>     $ echo $RED
>     \[\e[1;31m
>     $ emacs -nw -Q
>     M-: (getenv "RED") RET
>     --> nil

Did you "export RED"?

Anyway, what I wanted to point out was that when you invoke the shell
from Emacs, it is a non-interactive session, which might get different
settings.