[TriLUG] bash cmd line processing question

M. Mueller (bhu5nji) bhu5nji at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 14 13:21:13 EST 2002


why does the following command work:

$kill -SIGHUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid`

why does the following command *not* work:

$kill -SIGHUP 'cat /var/run/syslogd.pid'

Mike M.




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