[M. Mueller (bhu5nji)] > Thank you all. That helps a lot. I can't find this topic covered in > "Learning the bash Shell" 2nd Ed. Looked under Symbols in index - nothing. > Looked in Chapter 7 on COmmand-line processing - nothing. SHould I drop an > email to O'Reilly?
FWIW, I tend to deprecate usage of backticks since it causes too much confusion when I paste commands to newbies in irc sessions, for instance. I personally prefer bash's $() capability, so: kill -SIGHUP $(cat foo) Much less confusing IMHO -- James Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = B913 2FBD 14A9 CE18 B2B7 9C8E A0BF B026 EEBB F6E4
