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From: leblanc@eecg.toronto.edu (Marcel LeBlanc)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: ASH $(cmd) command substitution
Summary: can't get $(cmd) or "|" to work
Keywords: command substitution, pipes
Message-ID: <1989Aug16.134345.1036@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Date: 16 Aug 89 17:43:45 GMT
Organization: EECG, University of Toronto
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The ARP shell, ASH, is supposed to be able to place the output of a command
on a command line before the line is executed.  I think the construction is
something like this:  cmd1 $(cmd2_output)
but I can't get it to work.  Also, I can't get unnamed pipes to work "|".
I've installed parts of conman 1.3, but not all of it.  Can anybody suggest
a cure?

Marcel A. LeBlanc	  | University of Toronto -- Toronto, Canada
leblanc@eecg.toronto.edu  | also: LMS Technologies Ltd, Fredericton, NB, Canada
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