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From: jw@sics.se (Johan Widen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: csh: proposal for a new feature
Message-ID: <1791@sics.se>
Date: 5 Mar 88 19:09:14 GMT
Reply-To: jw@sics.se (Johan Widen)
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
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sh and csh under UNIX allow a command to be executed to produce command
line arguments. I am talking about the `` syntax:
	rm `cat xxx`
will remove all the files listed in file xxx.

The command
	sets
recently published in comp.sources.unix makes this feature very desirable.
You can then say
	rm `sets * -d *.zoo *.c`
to remove all files except those ending in '.zoo' and '.c'.
-- 
Johan Widen
SICS, PO Box 1263, S-164 28 KISTA, SWEDEN
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