Redirectin output of call-process to a file.

[Olive]

I am executing the following command:

(call-process "/usr/bin/echo" nil (:file "/tmp/test.txt") nil "hello")

According tothe documentaion this should redirect the output of th eproces to the file "/tmp/test.txt" but I have this error:

Symbol's function definition is void: :file

What am I doingwrong here? I use emcs 24.3.1 on GNU/Linux.

liv

[Barry Margolin]

In article <20130522150...@pcolivier.chezmoi.net>,

You need to quote the list, to prevent it from being evaluated as a
function call:

(call-process "/usr/bin/echo" nil '(:file "/tmp/test.txt") nil "hello")

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Barry Margolin, bar...@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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[Olive]

Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

>
> You need to quote the list, to prevent it from being evaluated as a
> function call:
>
> (call-process "/usr/bin/echo" nil '(:file "/tmp/test.txt") nil "hello")
>

Thanks! (and excuse me for the typos, I was typing too fast).

Olive