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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!aukuni.ac.nz!ecmtwhk
  2. Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
  3. Subject: Re: csh variable distribution
  4. Message-ID: <1992Aug29.002931.12850@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
  5. From: ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig)
  6. Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 00:29:31 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug28.234111.24909@tfs.com>
  8. Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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  11. ashish@tfs.com (Ashish Mukharji) writes:
  12.  
  13. >Is there a way to do "text substitution" in csh under BSD?
  14.  
  15. Are you sure you want csh? Anyway...
  16.  
  17. >dump $compression | dd
  18.  
  19. eval echo "dump $compression | dd"
  20.  
  21. should do what you want.
  22. -- 
  23. Thomas Koenig, ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz, ib09@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
  24. The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic
  25. diagram.
  26.