Re: Using terminal output as input

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 08:51:38AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:

> As other people have pointed out, the way to capture a command's output
> is with $(command) (or `command`, though this is a bashism). 

$(command) is bashism. `command` is the "pure" bourne shell form.

$ posh
$ echo `echo hi`
hi
$ echo $(echo hi)
hi


And likewise on dash and busybox ash, which are the other shells I have
here. IIRC latest posix includes $(command) as well.

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