On Mon, 30 Mar 1998 22:31:53 +1000  Geoff Wing wrote:

> :MANX=`cat /etc/man.conf | grep '^_whatdb' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs`
> 
>   MANX=`grep '^_whatdb' < /etc/man.conf | awk '{print $2}'`
> 
> Why cat?  Why xargs?

Hmm, one of my pet peeves about shell scripts (at least here at work
where I have to review a reasonable number of them) is using extra
commands where not necessary.  How about:

	awk '/^_whatdb/ { print $2 }' /etc/man.conf

Simon.