Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!unicads!tom
From: tom@unicads.UUCP (Tom Gerardy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: MPW cmd language
Keywords: MPW
Message-ID: <495@unicads.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 89 19:48:46 GMT
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I am trying to put up ctags and a vi/tags like facility in MPW (actually
it is already working.)  The output of the tag tool is a string of MPW
commands to open the file and find the search string.  Is there a way
to feed this directly to the shell?  I tried using command substitution
on the whole line, but MPW seems to have already decided that there is
only one command and trys to open all the other words on the line!
Currently I am having to write the output to a file and execute it as
a script.  This seems to slow things down considerably since both "open"
and "find" are builtins.

I _have_ RTFM a considerable amount although I only upgraded to 3.0 very
recently so I might concievably have missed _something_ :-)  The short
part of the manual that describes what order the shell expands things in
is slightly ambiguous.  It describes tokenization as happening after
command substitution with a note about ';' and such characters at that
point.  However, it seems as if the ';'s have already been processed before
command substitutuion.  Are they really snarfed as part of the control
structures step?

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated greatly.  BTW I will try to
figure out how to ship this stuff to mac sources/binaries after I've played
just a little more to get the bugs out... I assume there would be some
interest?

	-tom-

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