From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@richardsharpe.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Processing of convenience variables for scripts ...
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 08:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DF0D8F1.4020708@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021206164214.GA27660@nevyn.them.org>
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.
--
Fernando Nasser
Red Hat Canada Ltd. E-Mail: fnasser@redhat.com
2323 Yonge Street, Suite #300
Toronto, Ontario M4P 2C9
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-06 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-06 8:30 Richard Sharpe
2002-12-06 8:41 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-12-06 8:54 ` Fernando Nasser [this message]
2002-12-06 11:57 ` Richard Sharpe
2002-12-06 14:53 ` Fernando Nasser
2002-12-06 17:17 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-12-07 8:50 ` Richard Sharpe
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2002-11-20 0:48 Richard Sharpe
2002-11-20 6:13 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-11-20 8:32 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-11-20 8:36 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-11-20 9:28 ` Richard Sharpe
2002-11-20 10:36 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-11-20 21:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-05 16:52 ` Fernando Nasser
2002-12-08 11:36 ` Doug Evans
2002-12-08 12:30 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-12-08 12:52 ` Doug Evans
2002-12-08 11:16 ` Doug Evans
2002-12-08 11:31 ` Richard Sharpe
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