sh(1) command substitution and here documents

Shutoku Shia smileyf at ucscb.UCSC.EDU
Sun Jun 26 11:15:20 AEST 1988


In article <3920 at saturn.ucsc.edu> smileyf at ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Shutoku Shia) writes:
>one other soln. is (instead of using here doc):
>
>#!/bin/sh
>float_var=`echo "scale = 4; 3/4" | bc"`
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I made a mistake here .. there should be no double quote following
bc.

	Shutoku Shia

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