weird csh thing
Ranjan Bagchi
bagchi at eecs.umich.edu
Sun Jan 6 16:07:22 AEST 1991
anyone care to explain?? (I`m in csh)
$ 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
Process shell finished
shouldn't "$p" have the same effect as "w | tail +3" ?
-rj
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