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From: Ethan Gardener <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] rc scripts, how to get spaces in array elements generated by command output?
Date: Sun,  6 Jan 2019 14:34:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1546785263.3598895.1626884120.3B6F5B68@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190105235228.GA21088@alice>

On Sat, Jan 5, 2019, at 11:52 PM, Anthony Martin wrote:
> You need to change the input field separator, $ifs.

Yep, that was the only way to do it for a long time.
There is now a patch for a shortcut:
var=`"{cmd}

The patch is incorporated in current 9front.  Example run:

term% foo=`"{echo a b c}; echo $foo(1)
a b c



      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-06 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-05 21:13 Mack Wallace
2019-01-05 23:52 ` Anthony Martin
2019-01-06  1:05   ` Mack Wallace
2019-01-06 14:34   ` Ethan Gardener [this message]

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