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From: limes@ouroborous.Sun.COM (Greg Limes)
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Subject: Re: Is it possible to nest Csh command substitution?
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Date: 7 Jun 90 04:11:51 GMT
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In article <1990Jun6.215148.9668@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>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. 

Anyone else out there took Clint Staley's "unix hacking" class out at
UC Santa Barbara? No? I guess I gotta pipe up then ...

Without thinking too much about the problem, he tossed this one at us
as an assignment. It turns out to be possible, but extremely hairy -- I
tend to remember weird stuff like this, but this was *too* weird.
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