From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-01-15T01:17:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Backquotes vs. system (was Re: Best way for platf. independent compression?)

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 12:02:17PM +0900, YANAGAWA Kazuhisa wrote:
> Is there a good reason using `command`?  

Yes, I have tar extracting a control file from the packet to stdout,
grab it and parse it on the fly.  

Not that this couldn't be achieved via a temporary file.

Massimiliano