Re: Processing of convenience variables for scripts ...

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser at redhat dot com>]

Richard Sharpe wrote:> On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Fernando Nasser wrote:
> > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >
> > > That said, I'm not worried about implementing this as much as I am
> > > designing what it "ought" to look like.
> > For me just:
> >
> > eval command args... ${something} more args...
> >
> > where the value of ${something} is blah
> >
> > causes the following command to be executed
> >
> > command args... blahh more args...
> >
> >
> > eval just expands the variable to create the real command to be excuted 
> > and calls execute_command() with it.
>
> This sounds like a simple short-term solution while we wait on a more 
> general method where all commands can take expressions of any type :-)
Why we would want that?  Are you thinking of any specific example where this 
could be useful?




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