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Re: bash quoting question



On Sat, Oct 13, 2001, Ehud Karni wrote about "Re: bash quoting question":
>     echo "IBMA ?" | ( IFS="|" ; $A ) 
> 
> BTW. Any one knows why I choose the above example (Hint: film) ? 

Yeah :) I always thought the name in the book (which obviously came before
the film :) ) was chosen as a pun on IBM.

There's a similar rumor going around on why Windows NT was named "NT" -
anybody knows what these letters should mean? I don't. Anyway, the rumor is
that WNT was formed by taking "VMS" and adding one from each letter!

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