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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!enterpoop.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: A challenge to all true kernel hackers - conditional symlinks. Date: 10 Mar 1993 16:52:08 GMT Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 17 Message-ID: <1nl6boINNbpu@life.ai.mit.edu> References: <JKH.93Mar9214944@whisker.lotus.ie> <CGD.93Mar9185827@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <avalon.731770107@coombs> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.ai.mit.edu In article <avalon.731770107@coombs> avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes: > > $VAR - env var name holding actual value > #!path - execute this to get name > name - ordinary link s/#!path/$(path)/ It is probably better (read: easier in terms of parsing, and less likely to break Emacs) to use the psh syntax for process substitution. -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!