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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Can ls be made to only list directories?
Message-ID: <10914:Sep306:06:3490@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 3 Sep 90 06:06:34 GMT
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In article <1990Sep3.032037.487@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
> A tip from someone who knows launching processes is expensive:
> You *never* need
> 	`echo something`
> Just use
> 	something

Not always. When echo is built in and the shell is sensible, `echo
something` is hardly an efficiency loss, and it's sometimes useful for
playing with the spacing. (Consider csh's word breaks.)

---Dan