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From: speelmo@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Lance Speelmon -- UCS)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: weird csh thing
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.182958.21295@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 91 18:29:58 GMT
References: <BAGCHI.91Jan6000722@snarf.eecs.umich.edu>
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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In article <BAGCHI.91Jan6000722@snarf.eecs.umich.edu> bagchi@eecs.umich.edu (Ranjan Bagchi) writes:
>anyone care to explain??  (I`m in csh)
>
Try:
set p = `w | tail +3`

i think that should fix it...

Lance

>
>$ set p = "w | tail +3 "
>$ echo $p
>w | tail +3
>$ $p
>Usage: w [ -hlsuw ] [ user ]
>$ w | tail +3
>benjo    ttyp3    10:13pm           41      4  -sh 
>benjo    ttyp4    10:17pm         3:22      4  -csh 
>$ exit
>$ exit
>
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