Peter Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > From man 1 bash: > Command Substitution > Command substitution allows the output of a command to > replace the command name. There are two forms: > > $(command) > or > `command` > > That's why I had the backticks in there. I've never seen the > $() construct either.
You can use it for
kill -9 $(pidof netscape)
to get rid of all processes that have the string "netscape" in their
names ;)
Andre
