> i think what you intend to write is more like > plumb start rc -c 'echo '$data' | plumb -i -d edit -a > ''action=showdata'''
Yes. This works! :) > with a little bit of hindsight, perhaps it might have been easier for > the plumber to make the arguments a shell script and feed the literal text > to the shell. Well. So now I just don't understand how the examples in Plumbing and Other Utilities by Rob Pike, page 11 could work... Was there a rewrite? The example there is no longer valid... :( That cost me quite some time... > - erik Thanks! Ruda