Bash problems?

[magicus]

Tomas Larsson wrote:

> Thanks all, however for some reason 'ls $DIR' didn't work.
> $(ls $DIR) did the job.

The reason that 'ls $DIR' did not work is that it was not what was shown 
in the example, what was shown and does work is:

`ls $DIR`

which uses back ticks, a subtle difference.  :-)


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