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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:42:03 -0600
From: JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: shell trickery
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A shell-related question:

% echo '$BASE/foo/bar' > tmpfile
% cat tmpfile
$BASE/foo/bar
% export BASE=/home
% ls `cat tmpfile`
ls: $BASE/foo/bar: No such file or directory
% set `cat tmpfile`
% ls $@
ls: $BASE/foo/bar: No such file or directory

I've tried this (and *many* other variations which I
will not repeat here) with bash-2.04 under djgpp 2.03.

Is there some shell trickery to get the variable `$BASE'
(written as such in `tmpfile') to be expanded when it is
presented as the argument to `ls', `cd', etc?

-- 
TIA/jtw