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Hi, This is one of the many reasons I like BASH so much. In this case I prefer the $( ... ) syntax in place of the back-quote semi-equivalent. I say "semi-equivalent" because unlike back-quote, the $( ) construct nests. Another BASH favorite of mine is $' ... ', a quoted string in which backslash escapes are substituted. Randall Schulz Teknowledge Corp. Palo Alto, CA USA At 11:05 +0200 10/13/00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >Neil Zanella wrote: >> >> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> > # The external services are typically called via `tcpd' for >> > ^ >> > # The external services are typically called via 'tcpd' for >> >> This may sound like a silly question but how does that change things? >> I thought anything between a pound sign and a newline character would >> be ignored by the bash shell when running a script. > >This is inside of a here script. The standard behaviour of sh is >to do command and variable substitution inside of here scripts. >This is very helpful to create context dependent output for example. >Try: > >... > >Corinna Vinschen -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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