Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!gatech!ncar!oddjob!mimsy!aplcen!jhunix!ins_adjb From: ins_adjb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Daniel Jay Barrett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this.... Keywords: my favorite unix command Message-ID: <6804@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Date: 10 Aug 88 15:25:59 GMT References: <2213@ihlpm.ATT.COM> Reply-To: ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP (Daniel Jay Barrett) Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr. Lines: 22 In article <2213@ihlpm.ATT.COM> jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis) writes: >I am wondering if any of these shells can execute my >unix KSH command, namely the backtick. Yes and no. Somebody *has* modified the Dillon/Drew shell to include the backtick. This version was based on V2.07M of the shell. However, the implementation of backtick is not completely general. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't, depending on where in your command the backtick was. I seem to remember that you could do: $ file `where ls` but you couldn't put the backtick first in your command, like: $ `where ls` -- Dan Barrett ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP barrett@cs.jhu.edu