Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> writes:
> I am using a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu). Often I need to use the
> output of one terminal command as the input for another. A classic
> example is the which command:
> $ which firefox
> /usr/bin/firefox
> $
This may be a stupid question, but what's the difference between firefox
and $(which firefox)? They both run the first executable named firefox
in your path, don't they?
Tyler
--
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out,
which is the exact opposite. --Bertrand Russell
Which doesn't return shell builtins.