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>Command Substitution</TITLE
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NAME="COMMAND-SUBSTITUTION"
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>6.3. Command Substitution</H1
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>Command substitution is basically another way to do a pipe, you can use pipes and command substitution interchangeably, it's up to you which one you find easier...</P
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>Command substitution can be done in two distinct ways.</P
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>Method One (back-quotes)<A
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> </P
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>Simply type:</P
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>command_1 `command_2 -options`</PRE
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>This will execute “command_2” and it's output will become the input to “command_1”.</P
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>Backquote key</B
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>The back-quote key is usually located at the same place as the tilde, above the [Tab] key.</P
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>Method Two (dollars sign)<A
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NAME="COMMAND-SUBSTITUTION-DOLLARS-SIGN"
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>Simply type:</P
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>command_1 $(command_2)</PRE
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>This will execute “command_2” and it's output will become the input to “command_1”.</P
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>Using the pipe instead<A
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NAME="COMMAND-SUBSTITUTION-PIPE"
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> </P
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>You can of course use pipes to do the same thing, if you don't know what a pipe is, please see <A
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HREF="usage-input-output.html"
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>Section 6.2</A
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>. For example instead of doing:</P
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>less $cat file1.txt file2.txt</PRE
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>You could do:</P
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>cat file1.txt file2.txt | less</PRE
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>And end up with exactly the same result, it's up to you which way you find easier.</P
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