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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting What are $(...) and $((...)) used for? Post 302477382 by ctsgnb on Saturday 4th of December 2010 07:10:59 PM
Old 12-04-2010
$(...)evaluate the command that is inside and pass the result as a variable (new fashion) ... the old fashion way is using back tick ``
$((...))is used when evaluating arithmetic operation
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