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From: gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (BURNS,JIM)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Can ls be made to only list directories?
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Date: 5 Sep 90 01:27:26 GMT
References: <10914:Sep306:06:3490@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
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in article <10914:Sep306:06:3490@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>, brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) says:
> In article <1990Sep3.032037.487@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
>> You *never* need >> 	`echo 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.)

I thought so at first too, but don't the backquotes launch a process?
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