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To:	Bengt Kleberg <bengt@softwell.se>
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Subject: Re: ifs substitution, how should it work?
Date:	Thu, 18 May 2000 08:12:38 -0400
From:	Tim Goodwin <tjg@star.le.ac.uk>
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> ; x = ``(abc) {echo -n 1a2b3abc4c5}
> ; echo $x => 1a2b3 4c5

If you want awk, you know where to find it.  :-)

I don't think anything more complicated than single character field
seperators belongs in a shell: particularly not rc.

What's the actual problem you're trying to solve?

Tim.