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How do you shell expand your variables and why? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by zephyr@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@ilega_dh You don't need cat in cases when grep "d" alphabet.txt can read from file too. Edit: But obviously your comment was more of a joke to over complicate it. So never mind then.

[–] gendulf@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be safe, should probably output grep to a file, then cat that.

[–] ilega_dh@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. Everything in Linux is a file so let’s keep it that way.