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- From: marques@vax.oxford.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
- Subject: Re: SH backquote functionality in REXX?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.175034.8260@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 16:50:34 GMT
- References: <41280@ogicse.ogi.edu>
- Organization: Oxford University Library Automation Team
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- In article <41280@ogicse.ogi.edu>, jbthiel@ogicse.ogi.edu (John B. Thiel) writes:
- >
- > 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?
- >
- > eg.
- > now=`date`
- >
- > --
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-
- In a word, no. Both OS/2 and VM REXX have ways of putting the output of
- commands into stem variables but these methods are implementation specific.
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- Jose Marques, Systems Programmer
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