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Re: delimited listf
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Glenn Cole <[log in to unmask]>
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Glenn Cole <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:19:54 -0800
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Mark Bixby wrote:

>>  > :-) Here's the POSIX shell version:
>>  >
>>  > INVENT3K:/BIXBY/PUB$ var=$(ls | tr "\n" ',' | sed -e s/.$//)
...
>The "P" in POSIX should really stand for "Powerful", IMO.  :-)

then John Pickering:

>  And the "I" in POSIX should really stand for incomprehensible :-)

That's it!

    Powerful
    Obscure
    System of
    Incomprehensible
   eXpressions

But that's why they call it "code." ;)

--Glenn

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