Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!mazda!perley From: perley@mazda.steinmetz (Donald P Perley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this.... Summary: backquoted commands Keywords: my favorite unix command Message-ID: <11809@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 10 Aug 88 03:03:11 GMT References: <2213@ihlpm.ATT.COM> Sender: news@steinmetz.ge.com Reply-To: perley@mazda.steinmetz.ge.com (Donald P Perley) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 26 In article <2213@ihlpm.ATT.COM> jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis) writes: > >After hearing the talk of AmigaShell and other related things. >I am wondering if any of these shells can execute my favorite >unix KSH command, namely the backtick. Let me give you an >example. > >Backtick (or grave accent) will "execute a command in place" >and let the results of that command be the arguements for >your command line. Tshell supports backquoted commands. You can say something like: cp `cat /df0/printlist` prt: & It is a commercial product: $50 from Metran Technology, Box 890, West Oneonta NY 13861. They have a crippled demo disk (no utilities and terminates after a random number of commands) that you can probably get if you send an s.a.s.e. and a blank, or try your local dealer. The usual disclaimers: I have no association with Tshell other than meeting "Mr. T" once and using the product. -don perley