On Tuesday 15 June 2004 17:11, Ed Skinner wrote:
> rm `ls | grep -v .jpg`
>
> Note the back single quotes are on the key next to the "1" character. When
> you put these around some commands, they are executed and their stdout is
> captured, and that stdout is then dropped in, in place of the back quoted
> expression and the outer "rm ..." is then executed.
 
I don't know why but this command excited me! I even wrote it down  as: what 
is in the `` is executed first and becomes the argument for the other 
command.
-- 
<:-)Mike(-:>






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