On Sun, 5 May 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > Thanks, Gena, > > I understand Debian generally deprecates the use of /usr/local, > so your suggestions are well made. It is possible that the > solution might even be easier ... it is possible that the path to > the two utilities nano and ispell might even be omitted > altogether. I have not tried that though. Yes, I believe it can. The often, in my view, under-estimated command substitution can be used here I th9ink. For example, if I type without the quotes of course: "echo -e `which ispell`" I get: /usr/bin/ispell. Therefore you could simply use 2 command substitutions to obtain the paths for the commands on your system, as the command switches could still be used outside the substitution, a simple example is shown below, again omit the quotes: "`which pico` -z test.txt" Cheers. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
