From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fw.softwell.se ([193.15.236.45]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <26181>; Sun, 14 May 2000 01:34:28 -0400 Received: from trillian.softwell.se (IDENT:bengt@trillian.softwell.se [192.42.172.11]) by fw.softwell.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA12218 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 12:14:44 +0200 Received: (from bengt@localhost) by trillian.softwell.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA17928 for rc@hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca; Fri, 12 May 2000 12:14:43 +0200 Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 06:14:43 -0400 From: Bengt Kleberg Message-Id: <200005121014.MAA17928@trillian.softwell.se> To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca Subject: ifs substitution, how should it work? Greetings, I thought that these two expression would produce different output ; x = ``( a b c ) {echo -n 1a2b3abc4} ; echo $x 1 2 3 4 and then x = ``( abc ) {echo -n 1a2b3abc4} ; echo $x 1 2 3 4 Obviously they do not, but since I was expecting 1a2b3 4 in the last case I wonder if this similarity is 'the real thing'? (i have failed utterly to understand the simple rc syntax before, so presumably I only need a friendly explanation as to why they must be the same :-) Best Wishes, Bengt =============================================================== Everything aforementioned should be regarded as totally private opinions, and nothing else. bengt@softwell.se ``His great strength is that he is uncompromising. It would make him physically ill to think of programming in C++.''