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Date: Wed,  9 Sep 2009 13:36:23 -0500
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From: Jason Catena <jason.catena@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] nice quote
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Skip intoned:
>> anyone written any software recently?
>
> i've been; though mostly in rc. in the process i (re)discovered this
> idiom:
>
> doing=`{ifs=/ echo `{echo /talking/about/it/is/more/fun}}
> echo $doing

*=`{ifs=/ echo `{echo /talking/about/it/is/more/fun}}
echo $3 $4 doing that $6 $4 $2

Put that in bash's pipe and smoke it.

Jason Catena