What does the ` Characteter Do?

2007-10-08 Thread duff
What does this ` character do in the command line? For example, I am suppose to enter the following command from a terminal window when running in a bash shell: # bfu `pwd`/archives/`uname -p`/nightly It looks as if the ` is suppose to evaluate to the output of a command or variable.

Re: What does the ` Characteter Do?

2007-10-08 Thread Bob Proulx
duff wrote: What does this ` character do in the command line? Command Substitution. And I was a little surprised to see that when I looked for that character in the man page that it did not appear anywhere within it in the Debian formatting of the manual. It appears that there is a formatting

Re: What does the ` Characteter Do?

2007-10-08 Thread Mike Stroyan
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 01:59:25PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: duff wrote: What does this ` character do in the command line? Command Substitution. And I was a little surprised to see that when I looked for that character in the man page that it did not appear anywhere within it in the