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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: Is it possible to nest Csh command substitution?
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Date: 6 Jun 90 21:51:48 GMT
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In article <1990Jun6.082816.13649@mentor.com>, cmorgan@mentor.com (Clark
Morgan  @ APD x4813) writes:
|> [Is it possible to do nested command substitution in csh?]

  No, I'm fairly certain it's not possible to do this.  The traditional
way to get around it is to assign the result of the inner `` to a shell
variable, and then use that shell variable in the second ``, e.g.:

    set foo = `echo stuff`
    echo `$foo`

|> If this is a frequently asked/trivial question, please don't
|> post the answer, just send me e-mail.

  I haven't seen it asked in a while, and it isn't in the FAQ posting,
but I have seen it asked before in this group, so perhaps it *should* be
in the FAQ posting :-).

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