From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from netcomsv.netcom.com ([163.179.1.9]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <2685>; Mon, 18 Jan 1993 11:34:06 -0500 Received: from netapp.UUCP by netcomsv.netcom.com with UUCP (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA23047; Mon, 18 Jan 93 08:33:04 PST Received: from ghoti.netapp by netapp.netapp.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01007; Mon, 18 Jan 93 08:33:04 PST Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 11:33:04 -0500 From: byron@netapp.com (Byron Rakitzis) Message-Id: <9301181633.AA01007@netapp.netapp.com> To: Sm@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: varaiable expansion and here documents I don't know if it's obvious in the documentation, but variable expansion inside here documents is of a very restricted form. e.g., look at the discusson of how the '^' character is treated, or how to enter a literal '$'. If you need list concatenation, backquote expansion, etc., then you should use the regular rc parser.