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From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this....
Message-ID: <1836.AA1836@heimat>
Date: 10 Aug 88 22:16:43 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Sneakers Computing
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In Message <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.

  I havent seen a shell (yet) that will allow the 'backtick'. But it should be
  able to be done with pipes (or was that mirrors.. Hmm..). Of course a pipe
  device is included FREE with AmigaDOS V1.3 - at a store near you RSN.

>		> where ls
>		> /bin/ls
>		> file /bin/ls
>or I could type:
>		> file `where ls`

  1> where >pipe:1 ls
  1> file 	This space would have been	|	Mike Davis

  Doesn't have quite the same meaning when trimmed to 1 line :-)


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