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Re: Fails to eval sh environment

From: Paul Jarc
Subject: Re: Fails to eval sh environment
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 13:57:41 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) 
Philip Willoughby <address@hidden> wrote:
> Bourne shell environment variable setting/exporting does not work from within
> a backtick expression.

That's the intended behavior.

> A workaround is to substitute
> `_command_`
>
> with
>
> _command_ > blah.$$ ; . blah.$$ ; rm -f blah.$$
>
> But this is not a good solution.

eval "`_command_`"


paul
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