| > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, David W. Tamkin wrote:
|
| > > If your criteria include
| > > preserving $= without saving it in an ordinary variable, your quest
| > > is hopeless.
|
| I don't really have an argument with what David said, except that
| whenever I read "best way," "only way," "impossible," or "hopless,"
| my mischievous mind starts churnging.
"Hopless"? "Churnging"?
| Here, I can think of lots
| of alternatives to "hopeless" -- none of them particularly realistic
| or good, though. But, just to play devil's advocate, how about:
|
| | cat $= > somefile
What will that accomplish other than invoking a shell, generating a "cat:
cannot open 0" [or whatever number $= currently is] error, and giving procmail
a write error? It certainly won't come close to Bart's original goal.
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