> admittedly I'm not a great shell programmer. I'm trying to figure out a  
> way to determine in a m4 macro which patchlevel of Tcl we are compiling  
> Rivet with by letting tclsh return in a shell variable the output of  
> [info patchlevel]. We have other examples of Tcl-m4 cooperation but data  
> go into files, I would like to get the same information into a shell  
> variable, is there a way to do it?

something like that?

 > /bin/sh
 $ FOO=`echo puts [info patchlevel] | tclsh`
 $ echo $FOO
 8.5.10
 $

hth
Ronnie
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