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On 2013-11-26, Randy Barlow <randy@×××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 11:52:10 +0100 |
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> Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen@×××××××××.de> wrote: |
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>> There are some other options of "nesting" as well. You can use |
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>> backticks "`" or $(...) to run a command "inside" another. An example |
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>> would be emerge `qlist -CI x11-drivers` (or the equivalent emerge |
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>> $(qlist -CI x11-drivers) ) . This would run "qlist -CI |
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>> x11-drivers" (lists installed packages of the category x11-drivers) |
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>> and use this output for emerge (which will effectively result in |
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>> reinstalling every package from the x11-drivers category). |
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> As I understand it, the $(...) syntax is the preferred way of nesting, |
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> as opposed to backticks. I think this may be due to backticks requiring |
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> some special escaping that the $(...) syntax does not require. |
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AFAIK, it's entirely for readability. In some fonts, it's almost |
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impossible to tell back tics from forward tics. And at some eyeball |
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ages it's possible to completely miss both when reading quickly... |
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