On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Eric in San Diego <eric.sc...@acm.org>wrote:

> In a shell, I can call
>
> > app arg1 arg2 arg3 arg4 arg5 arg6 arg7
>
> and get my expected results.
>
> However, if I make what I think is the same call programmatically in
> clojure:
>
> (ns ...
>    (:require [clojure.java.shell :as sh]
>    ))
>
> (defn test []
>    (sh/sh "app" "arg1" "arg2" "arg3" "arg4" "arg5" arg6" "arg7"))
>
> my app is throwing an error. Is there some way to get at the difference
> between the args as passed from the command-line and the args as passed
> from the shell call?
>
> I would add that this approach has always worked in the past, not clear
> why this particular app is the exception.
>
> Thanks for any help.


Beware of the shell expansion!

For example:

In a terminal: ls *.clj will list all files ending with .clj.

In the Clojure REPL: (sh "ls" "*.clj") will do something different: List
all files named <star><dot>clj, as Clojure won't expand your wildcard but
pass the "*.clj" as is.

Denis


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