[TriLUG] bash cmd line processing question

[James Manning]

[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
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