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From: jsivier@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jonathon Sivier )
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Subject: Re: Need help using eval in scripts
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Date: 2 Jun 90 17:02:57 GMT
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In article <918@cameron.egr.duke.edu> amr@dukee.egr.duke.edu (Anthony M. Richardson) writes:
>How does one use eval if you want to read one of the parameters from
>an input file (or environment variable)?  The 1.3 manual (the little
>white book) I have says you can do this and even gives an example
>that goes something like (from memory)
>
>  eval < t:qwe value2=1 op=- to env:loop

  I think one thing you have to do if you are going to use input redirection
with '<' is to redifine the braket characters to something like '{}'.
Otherwise the parser see's the '<' as the beginning of an input parameter.
I hope this helps some.

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Jonathan Sivier
jsivier@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu