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- From: jbthiel@ogicse.ogi.edu (John B. Thiel)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
- Subject: SH backquote functionality in REXX?
- Message-ID: <41280@ogicse.ogi.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 04:33:47 GMT
- Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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- What, if any, is a Rexx equivalent to the backquote mechanism as used
- in SH, whereby `process` is replaced by the stdio output of the
- process?
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- eg.
- now=`date`
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