a good way to save a keystroke?
Robin Schoonover
end at endif.cjb.net
Fri Nov 21 18:11:12 PST 2003
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 21:04:43 -0500, Scott W <wegster at mindcore.net> wrote:
> Marty Landman wrote:
>
> > At 08:40 PM 11/21/2003, Scott W wrote:
> >
> >> So yep, it's doing what you want, the way you wanted to...use
> >> something similar fairly often myself, although note that the
> >> 'current' standard for executing commands is now $(cmd), eg
> >>
> >> more $(which apachectl)
> >
> >
> > I get
> >
> > FreeB more $(which apachectl)
> > Illegal variable name.
> > FreeB
> >
> > Maybe I should've mentioned I'm on 4.8, or is there another reason?
> >
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> >
> D'oh, my mistake- you're using csh I take it? Sorry, I believe the
> $(cmd) syntax is now 'the standard' in sh/ksh/Bourne/bash, but evidently
> not csh....sorry, I've never been keen on csh, but that syntax won't
> work for you, although it will/does even in freeBSD sh.
>
> Sorry for the confusion,
The backticks (`) are of a general standard than the $(cmd) syntax. Not
only do backticks work under all shells I've tried them under, but they are
parts of perl and php.
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