From: Benjamin Purcell <benjapurcell@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] simple rc problem in p9p (on OpenBSD)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:48:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAsuYKcMggsqmWiwVwONM17jOwg0znA2tvmwr38JEvKjM0v4OA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ1xhMX+nDjvZsEW4LS6WjUcM73sA6tNEpbL8fV6fqco+bXH-Q@mail.gmail.com>
Since no one had any idea what you had in mind, here is stab in the
dark. Did you want
% for(i in `{echo $w}) {echo $i; echo XXX}
?
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Alexander Kapshuk
<alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 6:08 PM, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 26 April 2018 at 16:54, Lucio De Re <lucio.dere@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> w=(A B C)
>>>
>>> ?
>>
>> 1) this is not an answer
>> 2) the use of it all was that I wanted to send to print
>> certain files, the list of which I got from ls followed
>> by manual deletion (in 9term) of some... Newline separation
>> is thus natural.
>>
>> Thanks anyway
>> Ruda
>>
>
> You could initialise $w to hold a list of files output by ls like so:
> % w=`{ls}
> % echo $#w
> 40
>
> Is this what you had in mind?
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-26 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-26 14:45 Rudolf Sykora
2018-04-26 14:54 ` Lucio De Re
2018-04-26 15:08 ` Rudolf Sykora
2018-04-26 15:29 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2018-04-26 15:48 ` Benjamin Purcell [this message]
2018-04-26 18:36 ` Rudolf Sykora
2018-04-26 19:01 ` Costin Chirvasuta
2018-04-26 20:50 ` Rudolf Sykora
2018-05-22 19:57 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-04-26 14:57 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2018-04-26 15:02 ` Teodoro Santoni
2018-04-26 15:10 ` Rudolf Sykora
2018-04-26 15:20 ` dexen deVries
2018-04-26 15:31 ` Rudolf Sykora
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