Hey mark,
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Mark Ryall<[email protected]> wrote: > The other thing i'd really like to be able to do is to execute something to > populate an environment variable > > In bash you can do stuff like: > > export FOO_PID=`cat foo.pid` > > Anyone have any idea how to do that in fish? > > I haven't noticed it mentioned in the documentation. > > If you execute: > > set -x FOO `cat foo.pid` > > ... you just get the literal string `cat foo.pid` in fish you use () instead of backticks thus: set -x FOO (cat foo.pid) see here in the doceux http://fishshell.org/user_doc/index.html#expand-command-substitution fish on! :Lachie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
