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Jim says he was able to use the 'back quotes' with name=`function` to set
an environmental variable equal to $name.  But he thanks for you giving
him another way to do this.  He is really learning a lot from basiclinux. 

He is trying to find more information on dosemu and says less does not
work on HOWTO files.  This is probably because we have not installed
howto.tgz.  He wants to get his DOS text editor to work under
linux rather than rewrite it in C instead of assembly language.

>jimd wrote:
>>
>> How can standard output be made into an environment varible?
>
>I'm not sure exactly what you are asking.  However,
>to take the output of a process and put it into a
>variable, you can use the back-quotes.  Like this:
>---------------------
>x=`cat /etc/HOSTNAME`
>echo $x
>---------------------
>
>If your output consists of many words, each word can
>be put into a separate variable like this:
>-------------
>set -- `ls /`
>echo $1
>echo $2
>echo $3
>echo $4
>echo $5
>-------------
>
>Is that the sort of thing you were looking for?
>
>Cheers,
>Steven
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