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How do you shell expand your variables and why?
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this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2023
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find “$(echo $HOME > variable_holder.txt && cat variable_holder.txt)/$(cat alphabet.txt | grep “d”) $(cat alphabet.txt | grep “o”)$(cat alphabet.txt | grep “c”)$(cat alphabet.txt | grep “s”)”
This is the easiest method
@ilega_dh You don't need
catin cases whengrep "d" alphabet.txtcan read from file too. Edit: But obviously your comment was more of a joke to over complicate it. So never mind then.To be safe, should probably output grep to a file, then cat that.
Agreed. Everything in Linux is a file so let’s keep it that way.
Damn it, I'm almost out of A4 paper though.