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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:23:56 -0500
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] silly rc quoting question
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If you know that the output file is correctly quoted,
like the output of ls, then you can turn it into a shell
script and then pass it to rc.

For example:

  fn x {
    echo $1
  }
  . <{ls | sed 's/^/x /'}

Russ