On 02/10/2019, at 23:27, @lbutlr <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
wrote:
> $(cd so,e/directory; ls -ls $(grep -l "foo bar"))
> 
> The second version is much more readable and obvious as to what is going on, 
> and the backpacks quickly get out of hand as you spawn more sub shells.


Hey Lewis,

Yes, I agree.

I rarely ever use backticks in Bash, although I've been known to do so in Perl.

>> bbedit -s 'What file is required?'
> 
> Yes? Works exactly as I expect and as the man page says; what are you 
> expecting to happen with that command?
> 
> -s, --worksheet
>   Create a new shell worksheet file with the specified name, unless
>   such a file exists already, in which case it will be opened.


On 02/10/2019, at 08:48, @lbutlr <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
wrote:
> When the BBEdit man page says "the specified files" for a flag, it means that 
> a file is required. (FSVO of the word file)

bbedit -s 'What file is required?'

If the file does not exist then the worksheet is created as named, but no file 
is written to disk.

However Cmd-S will save it to the working directory.

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Chris

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