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From: ajm@icc.com (Al Marmora)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Can ls be made to only list directories?
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.042550.9028@icc.com>
Date: 6 Sep 90 04:25:50 GMT
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In article <1990Sep3.032037.487@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
>
>You *never* need
      ^^^^^
>
>	`echo something`
>
>Just use
>
>	something
>
>Think about it.

I did;  in a Bourne Shell try:
	echo hello > foobar ; cat < foo*
instead of
	echo hello > foobar ; cat < `echo foo*`

--al