RE: Treatment of $( .... )

[Andrews, Martin]

I think the following will work:

Append "for i in $(DOLLAR)(ls -1) ; do ls -l $i ; done"


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Douthitt [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 11:14 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Treatment of $( .... )
> 
> 
> Using the construct $( ) inside of strings in the editfiles section
> is converted to ${ } on output to the text file.  This breaks
> any ksh constructs that are used.
> 
> For example, the following:
> 
>   Append "for i in $(ls -1) ; do ls -l $i ; done"
> 
> ...would be converted to:
> 
>   for i in ${ls -1} ; do ls -l $i ; done
> 
> ...and then ksh fails with an error.
> 
> Is there some way to fix this besides using the (deprecated)
> backtick construct?
> 
>   Append "for i in $(ls -1) ; do ls -l $i ; done"
> 
> Backtick also does not allow nesting, whereas $( ) does.