Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 14:52:03 -0500
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	Williams on Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:42:03 -0600)
Subject: Re: shell trickery
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> 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?

eval echo `cat tmpfile`
eval ls `cat tmpfile`