[PLUG] More Scripting Fun!
Randal L. Schwartz
merlyn at stonehenge.com
Mon Jun 24 20:23:16 UTC 2002
>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Van Cleve <jason at vancleve.com> writes:
Jason> Thanks, gentlemen. I think I'm finally grasping the fine art of init
Jason> scripts.
Jason> Mr. Schwartz, why are the backslashes useful here?
>> eval \$COMMAND \$* ${COMMAND_SUFFIX}
After the eval pass, it's now:
$COMMAND $* [..and whatever is in COMMAND_SUFFIX]
and so it's as if you typed that, instead of what you started with.
Except that redirects in $COMMAND_SUFFIX are now active.
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