On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 3:48 PM Craig H Maynard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In section 3.5.4 "Command Substitution", the following sentence may have a
> typo:
>
> > The command substitution $(cat file) can be replaced by the equivalent
> but faster $(< file).
>
>
> My proposed change:
>
> > The command
Hi,
In section 3.5.4 "Command Substitution", the following sentence may have a typo:
> The command substitution $(cat file) can be replaced by the equivalent but
> faster $(< file).
My proposed change:
> The command substitution $(cat file) can be replaced by the equivalent but
> faster
> On Oct 17, 2020, at 7:35 PM, Eduardo Bustamante wrote:
>
> <(cat file) and $(cat file) are not equivalent constructs. The former will
> expand to a file name (e.g. "/dev/fd/63"), whereas the latter will expand
> to the contents of the file.
If you want terms you can look up, $(cat file) and
