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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to Force command substitution evaluation in bash? Post 302969884 by RudiC on Tuesday 29th of March 2016 02:49:38 PM
Old 03-29-2016
Why don't you keep using BUPLOG all over, then?
 

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