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Re: eshell command substitution?
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Stephen Berman |
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Re: eshell command substitution? |
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Sat, 23 Dec 2023 16:58:58 +0100 |
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On Sat, 23 Dec 2023 10:39:49 -0500 Jeff Clough <jeff@jeffclough.net> wrote:
> Good Morning!
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> Does eshell have command substitution? If so, can someone point me to
> its syntax. My search-fu is failing me.
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> My usual use case...
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> $ g++ base.cpp -o base `pkg-config gtkmm-3.0 --cflags --libs`
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> Backticks don't work, nor does $(...) unsurprisingly.
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> I've gotta be missing something glaringly obvious here, but I can't find
> an answer.
This should work (see (info "(eshell) Dollars Expansion")):
$ g++ base.cpp -o base ${pkg-config gtkmm-3.0 --cflags --libs}
Steve Berman