On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:38:35AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've not encountered any Unix shells that offer such a syntax, or any way of doing >it from a program. I believe the cpio and tar Unix utilities support file-lists as >an alternative to specifying the individual filenames on the command line, because >the length of command line could easily become very long; but this is implemented by >their own code, not the command line parser.
All Unix shells provide the syntax very nicely using backticks (backquotes?), for example mkdir /lib/modules/`uname -r` Most of this can be done with xargs as well so I would think the benefit of implementing this feature would not outweigh the disadvantages, mainly code size and complexity. Also, xargs is a separate program so it works in any shell or SBasic once it has been implemented. > But if all this could be built into the EX command in a future version of SMSQ/E, >then it would be a different matter entirely... this would not improve much, it would still be only accessible from basic and not c68 programs. In SBasic you already have ways to build command line strings very flexibly anyway.. Richard
