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Subject: Re: backquote poser
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> 	domain = ` { exec >[2] /dev/null; domainname }
> 
> Anyone got a cleaner idea?  For some reason it seems to me it should
> be able to be done more neatly.  I guess I mainly don't like needing
> a semicolon.

Snippets from my .rcrc:

EDITOR=`{which vi >[2] /dev/null || echo /usr/ucb/vi}
PAGER=`{which less >[2] /dev/null || which more >[2] /dev/null}
UNSHAR=`{which unshar >[2] /dev/null || echo /bin/sh}