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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9fans Digest, Vol 98, Issue 15
Date: Fri,  8 Jun 2012 20:15:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d5a39bba73d085d321ee092b25031729@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FD28E5C.3020608@gmx.de>

> Ok, so I got the whole idea wrong, I guess. I thought that $var is
> basically just syntactic sugar for `{cat /env/var}, so referencing a
> variable would always read from /env ...
> I don't really understand how and why this is not the case though, but
> I'll try to find out by reading a few more manpages ...

it would then make sense to say $./fu.  an idea i first heard
from mike haertel.

- erik



      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-09  0:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.286.1339197321.2642.9fans@9fans.net>
2012-06-08 23:44 ` Friedrich Psiorz
2012-06-08 23:51   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-06-09  0:15   ` erik quanstrom [this message]

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