Comments on: The following resulted in about an hour to an hour and a half of profanity laden delay: http://tempest.pugsplace.net/2007/09/06/the-following-resulted-about-an-hour-to-an-hour-and-a-half-of-profanity-laden-delay/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:00:54 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Pug http://tempest.pugsplace.net/2007/09/06/the-following-resulted-about-an-hour-to-an-hour-and-a-half-of-profanity-laden-delay/comment-page-1/#comment-15934 Pug Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:34:56 +0000 http://tempest.pugsplace.net/2007/09/06/the-following-resulted-about-an-hour-to-an-hour-and-a-half-of-profanity-laden-delay/#comment-15934 It happened because backticks can't be nested. With the new formatting I can write rm -rf $(ls -la $(cat ~/dirList)) to delete all files in all the directories in the ~/dirList file. I couldn't do that with backticks since rm -rf `ls -la `... looks like the command is "ls -la". Anyway, it happened around 2001. It happened because backticks can’t be nested. With the new formatting I can write
rm -rf $(ls -la $(cat ~/dirList)) to delete all files in all the directories in the ~/dirList file. I couldn’t do that with backticks since rm -rf `ls -la `… looks like the command is “ls -la”.

Anyway, it happened around 2001.

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