From: Bjørn Ruberg (bjornruberg.no)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2007 - 00:00:14 CST

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mouss wrote:
> Jay Chandler wrote:
>> Anyone have a hint for me how to get this line:
>>
>> /usr/local/sbin/pflogsumm -d yesterday (zcat /var/log/maillog.0.gz;
>> cat /var/log/maillog) 2>&1 |/usr/bin/mailx -s "`uname -n` daily mail
>> stats" chandler
>
> you can't do
> # more (ls)
> you must do
> # ls | more

The following should work, and IIRC works in most shells:

# more $(ls)

This is the same as

# more `ls`

So it seems you forgot a '$'.

By the way, 'ls | more' will not do what you (probably) want, however
'ls | xargs more' will.

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Bjørn

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