[comp.sys.amiga] csh: proposal for a new feature

jw@sics.se (Johan Widen) (03/06/88)

sh and csh under UNIX allow a command to be executed to produce command
line arguments. I am talking about the `` syntax:
	rm `cat xxx`
will remove all the files listed in file xxx.

The command
	sets
recently published in comp.sources.unix makes this feature very desirable.
You can then say
	rm `sets * -d *.zoo *.c`
to remove all files except those ending in '.zoo' and '.c'.
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