From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.rdc1.ct.home.com ([24.2.0.66]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <28503>; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 04:33:58 -0400 Received: from c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com ([24.2.177.105]) by mail.rdc1.ct.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with SMTP id <20000608055521.JHJK6851.mail.rdc1.ct.home.com@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com>; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:55:21 -0700 Received: by c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 8 Jun 2000 01:55:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 01:55:31 -0400 From: "Decklin Foster" To: carlos@texne.com Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: environment again Message-ID: <20000608015531.A9424@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from carlos@linux.it on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 02:53:55AM -0400 Organization: Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Vermin Carlo Strozzi writes: > ; a=`{cat bigfile} > ; echo $a |wc -c Can you give a non-trivial example? This should be 'wc -c < bigfile', obviously; I'm wondering what the real problem you're working on is where you can't iron out the variable. I'd tenatively say that I think a shell should provide you with enough facilites not to have to ever make variables that big, but you might come back at me with a doozy... -- There is no TRUTH. There is no REALITY. There is no CONSISTENCY. There are no ABSOLUTE STATEMENTS. I'm very probably wrong. -- BSD fortune(6)