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Subject: MINIX1.2 shell-problem
Keywords: command substitution in shell, MINIX 1.2 (640K-PC)
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Date: 15 Feb 89 02:02:42 GMT
Expires: 14 Mar 89 05:00:00 GMT
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In MINIX 1.2 (640K-PC version) the shell has problems with command
substitution unlike the Bourne shell under UNIX:

list=`ls /usr/bin`            fails with the message
asld: can't open basename

echo $list
ar

It seems that it tries to execute the second element of the from
the output of execution of 'ls /usr/bin', whereas it supposed to
assign the string obtained by executing 'ls /usr/bin' to variable
list. It seems to be a shortcoming of the shell --- any 
help/opinion/pointers to fix the problem will be appreciated.

-- ishwar rattan (rattan@frith.egr.msu.edu)