usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) (02/15/89)
In MINIX 1.2 (640K-PC version) the shell has problems with command substitution unlike the Bourne shell under UNIX: list=`ls /usr/bin` fails with the message asld: can't open basename echo $list ar It seems that it tries to execute the second element of the from the output of execution of 'ls /usr/bin', whereas it supposed to assign the string obtained by executing 'ls /usr/bin' to variable list. It seems to be a shortcoming of the shell --- any help/opinion/pointers to fix the problem will be appreciated. -- ishwar rattan (rattan@frith.egr.msu.edu)