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On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:26:18 +0100, Daniel Silverstone
<dsilvers at digital-scurf.org> wrote:

> Erm, are you sure you used backticks there and not quote marks?
> 
> eval 'lesspipe'
> 
> is very very different to
> 
> eval `lesspipe`
> 
> the latter is correct (and uses backwards apostrophes)

Hooray! It was only a typo on my end. :-) Thanks Daniel!

So now I've posted the script from Slackware that may or may not be
better than this, and now we have this. I'll let the developer type
people decide if and how this functionality could be added in the
future. I've never used a bugzilla, here or otherwise. Is there a
place there to request something like this? I'd be more than happy to
create an account there and enter this issue if others think it's
important. Since several people knew all about it, I'm apparently not
the only one that uses it. :-)

I suppose I should really get a book and try to learn some shell
scripting. How is it on the difficulty scale for someone that only
knows enough important terms to be dangerous? Is there a better
language for a "learn it myself" type guy like me? I'm a graphic
designer and not really used to using the other half of my brain - but
there's a lot less demand for graphic designers in the open-source
world than there is for people who can program.

Thanks again! 

-- 
Aaron

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