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Re: [RP] Ratpoison for laptop and apm
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Jonathan Walther |
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Re: [RP] Ratpoison for laptop and apm |
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Sat Mar 23 02:36:03 2002 |
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Mutt/1.3.27i |
Using `` these days is considered very bad style. $() looks better and
is much more flexible and robust. `` is just too damn fragile. It's
an onion in the varnish. If not for POSIX, all the modern
shell programs would have eliminated support for `` already.
Jonathan
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:23:28PM +0100, Christian Gennerat wrote:
Gergely Nagy a ?crit :
ratpoison -c "message $(apm-status)"
ratpoison -c "echo `apm`"
and get that I want, because the shell replaces `apm` by the report of apm
command.
echo `apm`
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