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From: ins_adjb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Daniel Jay Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this....
Message-ID: <6821@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 13 Aug 88 14:28:28 GMT
References: <1836.AA1836@heimat>
Reply-To: ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP (Daniel Jay Barrett)
Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr.
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In article <1836.AA1836@heimat> sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) writes:
>In Message <2213@ihlpm.ATT.COM>, jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis) writes:
>>
>>		> file `where ls`
>
>  1> where >pipe:1 ls
>  1> file <pipe:1

	Sorry, Dan, but these are not equivalent.  In Davis's example,
`where ls` expands into a COMMAND LINE ARGUMENT for "file".  In your
example, you have "file" reading from standard input.
	Pipes really can't replace the backtick.
-- 
Dan Barrett	ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP
		barrett@cs.jhu.edu