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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
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Reply-To: ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP (Daniel Jay Barrett)
Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr.
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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`

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Dan Barrett	ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP
		barrett@cs.jhu.edu