From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 20:15:45 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4FD28E5C.3020608@gmx.de> References: <4FD28E5C.3020608@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] 9fans Digest, Vol 98, Issue 15 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9ae8e5b6-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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