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interpolation (aka command substitution)

See original GitHub issue

Let’s say I have a which command, I want to

$ which code
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code.cmd
$ echo "Here is your path to code: $(which code)"
Here is your path to code: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code.cmd

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nfischercommented, Mar 14, 2016

I don’t think this is supported yet, but we may be able to add support for this without too much trouble.

@dthree we could probably solve this by looking for this pattern during pre parsing and recursively calling vorpal on the string, right? Or would the vorpal instance not be available there?

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nfischercommented, Mar 19, 2016

So I looked into this. We would essentially need to instantiate the preparser using the same vorpal instance. From there, the parsing is pretty simple. I can write something up for this. The only messy part is that we have to explicitly pass the vorpal instance around, or make the preparser an attribute of the vorpal instance.

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