Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!joyce!csl!porthos!aida From: aida@porthos.csl.sri.com (Hitoshi Aida) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: sh(1) command substitution and here documents Message-ID: <5632@csl.CSL.SRI.COM> Date: 22 Jun 88 18:18:58 GMT References: <1254@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <6774@sigi.Colorado.EDU> Sender: usenet@csl.CSL.SRI.COM Reply-To: aida@porthos.UUCP (Hitoshi Aida) Organization: Computer Science Lab, SRI International Lines: 21 In article <6774@sigi.Colorado.EDU> wu@spot.Colorado.EDU (WU SHI-KUEI) writes: >The following will do just fine: > > #!/bin/sh # not needed with REAL UNIX > var=`bc ' > scale = 2 > 3 / 4 > quit'` Not quite correct. The following will do just fine: #!/bin/sh # not needed with REAL UNIX var=`echo ' scale = 2 3 / 4 quit' | bc` "quit" can be omitted. Hitoshi AIDA (aida@csl.sri.com) Computer Science Lab, SRI International