[clue-tech] question on commands

[Keith Hellman]

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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