Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> writes:

> I am using a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu). Often I need to use the
> output of one terminal command as the input for another. A classic
> example is the  which command:
> $ which firefox
> /usr/bin/firefox
> $

This may be a stupid question, but what's the difference between firefox
and $(which firefox)? They both run the first executable named firefox
in your path, don't they?

Tyler

-- 
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out,
which is the exact opposite.           --Bertrand Russell


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