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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Environment variable
Date: Wed,  9 Aug 2006 21:15:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <92e8947f6a6872f73bd8fcb35b33e23d@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C8AF36A7-124E-491D-BBB0-ED8C9B2887B7@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp>

this doesn't do what you think it does.  the second line excerpted tries
to set b to the value of the variable named the empty list!

the first one who figures out what that means can meet me on the other
side of this möbius strip.

- erik

On Wed Aug  9 08:08:22 CDT 2006, arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote:
> term% a=()
[...]
> term% b=$`{cat /env/a}
[...]
> NG!
> 
> 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-10  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-04  9:37 [9fans] vmware? Anssi Porttikivi
2006-08-04  9:47 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-08-04 15:15   ` Richard Bilson
2006-08-04 15:44     ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-07 22:14       ` Richard Bilson
2006-08-07 23:50         ` Federico Benavento
2006-08-04 19:03     ` Gorka guardiola
2006-08-09 10:00       ` [9fans] Environment variable arisawa
2006-08-09 11:03         ` Martin Neubauer
2006-08-09 11:16           ` arisawa
2006-08-09 11:27             ` Martin Neubauer
2006-08-09 11:36               ` arisawa
2006-08-09 11:39               ` Martin Neubauer
2006-08-09 12:04                 ` arisawa
2006-08-09 12:26                   ` Martin Neubauer
2006-08-09 12:39                     ` Martin Neubauer
2006-08-09 12:58                       ` arisawa
2006-08-09 13:22                         ` arisawa
2006-08-09 13:30                         ` Martin Neubauer
2006-08-10  2:15                         ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2006-08-09 12:03               ` [9fans] editor, man/less, dns setup, screen setup bituman
2006-08-09 12:08                 ` Martin Neubauer
2006-08-09 12:08                 ` Robert Raschke
2006-08-19  0:45                   ` Rodolfo (kix)
2006-08-10  2:09         ` [9fans] Environment variable erik quanstrom

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