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From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] watching plumber
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> i think what you intend to write is more like
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0plumb start rc -c 'echo '$data' | plumb -i -d edit -a ''ac=
tion=3Dshowdata'''

Yes. This works! :)

> with a little bit of hindsight, perhaps it might have been easier for
> the plumber to make the arguments a shell script and feed the literal tex=
t
> to the shell.

Well. So now I just don't understand how the examples in
Plumbing and Other Utilities by Rob Pike, page 11
could work... Was there a rewrite? The example there is no longer
valid... :( That cost me quite some time...

> - erik

Thanks!
Ruda