On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 01:59:25PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> duff wrote:
> > What does this "`" character do in the command line?
>
> Command Substitution. And I was a little surprised to see that when I
> looked for that character in the man page that it did not appear
> anywhere within it in t
duff wrote:
> What does this "`" character do in the command line?
Command Substitution. And I was a little surprised to see that when I
looked for that character in the man page that it did not appear
anywhere within it in the Debian formatting of the manual. It appears
that there is a formatti
What does this "`" character do in the command line? For example, I am
suppose to enter the following command from a terminal window when running
in a bash shell:
# bfu `pwd`/archives/`uname -p`/nightly
It looks as if the "`" is suppose to evaluate to the output of a command or
variable. How
