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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Basic help Post 302953035 by RudiC on Tuesday 25th of August 2015 04:52:38 AM
Old 08-25-2015
@bakunin: Sorry to disagree, but above is called "command substitution". man bash:
Quote:
Command substitution allows the output of a command to replace the command name. There are two forms:

$(command)
or
`command`
Process substitution takes a different form:
Quote:
Process substitution is supported on systems that support named pipes (FIFOs) or the /dev/fd method of naming open files. It takes the form of <(list) or >(list).
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