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Date:      Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:04:53 +0000
From:      Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: a good way to save a keystroke?
Message-ID:  <20031121170453.GU66785@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20031121114154.08a0a190@pop.face2interface.com>
References:  <6.0.0.22.0.20031121114154.08a0a190@pop.face2interface.com>

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On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 11:44:22AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
> I wanted to look at a file and figured why not pipe the output of which t=
o=20
> more, which of course didn't work so I figured if I backticked the which=
=20
> output with more in front that would work, and apparently it does (though=
=20
> I'm not sure that the cmd itself wasn't executed?).
>=20
> e.g. more `which apachectl`
>=20
> Is this a reasonable way to get what I'm after, or a bad thing?

That's fine.  The command that gets executed is which, not apachectl, so
there's no need to worry on that account.

Ceri

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