Back Quote

in many UnixShells?, a BackQuoted? BangBang is a very handy operation.

Back quotes put the result of a command on the command line Here's an example:

 grep -l wiki *          

The above lists the names of all files containing the word wiki in the current directory.

 vi `!!`

invokes the editor to modify the contents of the files the previous command just produced.

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