You do not need to put date, ls, or any other COMMAND to put in quotes when executed in a terminal.
Just like this is enough:
To actualy work with them, it is suggest to echo them when encapsuled in a XY (what is this called again?).
As in:
Because if you just call:
It will fail, because its result is not a COMMAND.
Furthermore (but not relevant to the post), F14 is way end of life, 21 is coming out soon.
You do not need to put date, ls, or any other COMMAND to put in quotes when executed in a terminal.
Just like this is enough:
To actualy work with them, it is suggest to echo them when encapsuled in a XY (what is this called again?).
As in:
Because if you just call:
It will fail, because its result is not a COMMAND.
Furthermore (but not relevant to the post), F14 is way end of life, 21 is coming out soon.
Hope this helps
Thanks that solved my problem. Don't know what you mean by F14 though.
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