Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: rschulz@pop.teknowledge.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <39E6D053.45B360F6@cygnus.com> References: <39E6D053.45B360F6@cygnus.com> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 09:05:33 -0700 To: cygwin From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: Newbie question: How to use ftpd and telnetd? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Return-Path: rschulz@teknowledge.com 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@sourceware.cygnus.com