Skip intoned: >> anyone written any software recently? > > i've been; though mostly in rc. in the process i (re)discovered this > idiom: > > doing=`{ifs=/ echo `{echo /talking/about/it/is/more/fun}} > echo $doing
*=`{ifs=/ echo `{echo /talking/about/it/is/more/fun}} echo $3 $4 doing that $6 $4 $2 Put that in bash's pipe and smoke it. Jason Catena