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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7234 ; Mon, 18 Jan 93 10:50:28 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Differences with here documents Date: 19 Jan 1993 20:13:13 GMT Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 17 Message-ID: <1jhncpINNovu@life.ai.mit.edu> References: <1993Jan15.230023.5307@cm.cf.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu In article <1993Jan15.230023.5307@cm.cf.ac.uk> paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) writes: > > cat <<\EOF > $(CHNFILES) > EOF > > and this did what I wanted. Does this mean that there's a bug with > the ultrix shell (also SUNOS behaves in the same way). No; the Ultsux shell simply doesn't understand the $() syntax. -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!