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You know, you can *try* all these examples rather than mailing the
list.
On Sunday, August 12 at 11:13 PM, quoth Kai Grossjohann:
>For example, can I only use backquotes for the value? Or can I also
>use it for the name?
Yes and yes.
>| set foo=`echo bar`
>
>This is a somewhat silly way to set the variable foo to the value bar.
>But will the following line do the same?
>
>| set `echo foo`=bar
Yes.
>And what about this?
>
>| `echo set` foo=bar
Yes.
>And what if the shell command prints more than one line?
>
>| `echo foo; echo bar`
>
>Will the above do the same as the following two lines?
>
>| foo
>| bar
No.
~Kyle
- --
A lot of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of
view.
-- Obi Wan Kenobi
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