Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!think!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: sh(1) command substitution and here documents Message-ID: <11319@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 22 Jun 88 17:27:23 GMT References: <1254@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Distribution: na Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 23 In article <1254@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> jack@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Jack Nelson) writes: | What I would like to do is incorporate this calculation result into a shell | variable using the here document: | #!/bin/sh | var=`bc <