On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 11:52:10 +0100 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de> wrote: > There are some other options of "nesting" as well. You can use > backticks "`" or $(...) to run a command "inside" another. An example > would be emerge `qlist -CI x11-drivers` (or the equivalent emerge > $(qlist -CI x11-drivers) ) . This would run "qlist -CI > x11-drivers" (lists installed packages of the category x11-drivers) > and use this output for emerge (which will effectively result in > reinstalling every package from the x11-drivers category).
As I understand it, the $(...) syntax is the preferred way of nesting, as opposed to backticks. I think this may be due to backticks requiring some special escaping that the $(...) syntax does not require. I attempted a brief search for supporting information, but didn't find a definitive source to back up my claims :)
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