Subject: Re: bug#8084: 24.0.50; Grep output not usable in Ubuntu

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:46:20 +0100

Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> But does Emacs bypass the shell alias settings?
>
> It just calls the executable, without going through the shell.

That's not true, you wouldn't get the filename expansion without the
shell.  The real reason is that non-interactive shells don't expand
aliases.

Andreas.

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