[clue-tech] question on commands
Keith Hellman
khellman at mcprogramming.com
Fri Mar 11 13:26:41 MST 2005
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:31:37PM -0700, David Anselmi wrote:
> Keith Hellman wrote:
> [...]
> > $ vi $(find . -name application.properites)
> > or
> > $ vi `find . -name application.properties`
> >
> >Note the punctuation character is a backtick in the second example.
> >Both of these are identical, AFAIK, syntax telling the shell to *first*
> >run the find command, replace all runs of whitespace (including newline)
> >with 1 space, and then insert the output into the second command
> >argument list.
>
> They aren't exactly identical (though they are in this case). Backslash
> is interpretted differently with backticks (e.g., as an escape for
> nesting other backtick commands). See Command Substitution in bash(1).
Cool. Thanks for the detail.
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