From: craigberry@nospam.mac.com   
      
   On 5/9/25 11:32 PM, David Meyer wrote:   
   > I found that one way to do it is to put all the processing that uses the   
   > command output inside subshells in the same PIPE command.   
   >   
   > One shortcoming of this method is that it's very easy to go over the   
   > maximum command element length allowed inside the PIPE. For my   
   > procedure, I was able to get around this by choosing lexical functions   
   > to minimize the length of the PIPE command.   
   >   
   > Any other way to do this?   
      
   It's pretty easy with Perl:   
      
   $ perl -"MVMS::DCLsym" -e "$x=`show time`; VMS::DCLsym->setsym('mysym',   
   $x, 'GLOBAL');"   
   $ SHOW SYMBOL mysym   
      MYSYM == "   11-MAY-2025 14:10:89."   
      
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