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From: Friedrich Psiorz <f.psiorz@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p mk(1) syntax
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I don't think that the behavior is really unexpected ... the `{...} part
is interpreted by mk, but not the text between the braces. You probably
need to quote it if it contains braces itself.

Am 06.09.2013 13:03, schrieb dexen deVries:
> in p9p mk, this works as expected:
> foo = `{echo bar}
>
> but the following does not -- rc(1) indicates syntax error:
> foo = `{echo `{echo bar}}
>
>
> strace indicates that mk(1) passes input to rc(1) with no closing braces at
> all.
>
>
> i'm using MKSHELL = rc.
>