From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 12 15:00:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00461 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:00:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sbservices.com ([207.51.66.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00455 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:00:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ChrisMic@sbservices.com) Received: from thoth.sbservices.com (root@thoth.sbservices.com [199.174.17.20]) by sbservices.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA24318 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:07:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from site2s1.sbservices.com (site2.sbservices.com [169.2.160.40]) by thoth.sbservices.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA19335 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 17:57:02 -0500 (EST) Received: by site2s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 17:59:55 -0500 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A5D87@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels - SSG To: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: shell quirk Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 17:59:54 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I used to be able to type a command such as... kill `cat /var/run/named.pid`. It seems that lately I do this and it's not executing the cat command. Any ideas? -Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message