Microsoft brain-damage of the day

[Kjel Anderson]

Is that the new Powershell syntax? That is god-awful. Wow. Makes perl look
pretty.

Kjel

On 11/29/06, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Under 'nix, if I want to put the output of a command into a shell
> environment variable, I do this:
>
> NOW=$( date -I )
>
>   Under 'doze, I have to do this:
>
> FOR /F %%I IN ('gdate -I') DO SET NOW=%%I
>
>   Aren't you glad you use 'nix?
>
>   Don't you wish everybody did?
>
> -- Ben
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