update run-shell section with a line about quoting?
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Sivaram Neelakantan
Sep 12, 2020, 1:20:41 PM9/12/20
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It wasn't obvious to me that [shell-command] needs to be quoted if you
want to pass parameters to the shell command.
I kept getting errors for 'ls -al' for some time.
I spent a fair bit of time reading the docs before trying the
"obvious" method. Can this section be modified with the sentence I
added, if there are no side effects?
run-shell [-b] [-d delay] [-t target-pane] [shell-command] (alias:
run) Execute shell-command in the background
without creating a window. Before being executed,
shell-command is expanded using the rules speci-
fied in the FORMATS section. With -b, the command
is run in the background. -d waits for delay
seconds before starting the command. After the
command finishes, any output to stdout is displayed
in view mode (in the pane specified by -t or the
current pane if omitted). If the command doesn't
return success, the exit status is also displayed.
--> Quote the command and parameters in single or
double quotes if it takes parameters.
sivaram
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want to pass parameters to the shell command.
I kept getting errors for 'ls -al' for some time.
I spent a fair bit of time reading the docs before trying the
"obvious" method. Can this section be modified with the sentence I
added, if there are no side effects?
run-shell [-b] [-d delay] [-t target-pane] [shell-command] (alias:
run) Execute shell-command in the background
without creating a window. Before being executed,
shell-command is expanded using the rules speci-
fied in the FORMATS section. With -b, the command
is run in the background. -d waits for delay
seconds before starting the command. After the
command finishes, any output to stdout is displayed
in view mode (in the pane specified by -t or the
current pane if omitted). If the command doesn't
return success, the exit status is also displayed.
--> Quote the command and parameters in single or
double quotes if it takes parameters.
sivaram
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Nicholas Marriott
Sep 12, 2020, 1:33:45 PM9/12/20
to Sivaram Neelakantan, tmux-users
Hi
It only needs to be quoted if it contains spaces or other special characters. It is standard in man pages that unless otherwise stated each item is a single argument and it is the same for all uses of shell-command in tmux.1 and there are several examples. I don't think it needs to be stated, although we could add an example under run-shell as well.
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Sivaram Neelakantan
Sep 13, 2020, 5:13:05 AM9/13/20
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On Sat, Sep 12 2020,Nicholas Marriott wrote:
> Hi
>
> It only needs to be quoted if it contains spaces or other special
> characters. It is standard in man pages that unless otherwise stated
> each item is a single argument and it is the same for all uses of
> shell-command in tmux.1 and there are several examples. I don't
> think it needs to be stated, although we could add an example under
> run-shell as well.
>
that would help then. if there are examples provided. Thanks
> Hi
>
> It only needs to be quoted if it contains spaces or other special
> characters. It is standard in man pages that unless otherwise stated
> each item is a single argument and it is the same for all uses of
> shell-command in tmux.1 and there are several examples. I don't
> think it needs to be stated, although we could add an example under
> run-shell as well.
>
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sivaram
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