Re: Using terminal output as input

[Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>]

> Also note that
>
> $(ekiga | head -2 | tail -1)
>
> is a more portable equivalent.  $() is the same as `` but unlike `` can
> be nested, and has less quoting issues.  You can enclose it in
> double quotes, for example since it behaves like a variable expansion.
>

That also does not work on Debian-derived Ubuntu, so I do not know how
portable that is! But thanks for the tip, I certainly did learn
something and that's most important.

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