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The backtick program

backtick runs a program and uses its output as the argument of another program.

Interface

     backtick [ -n ] [ -s ] [ -C | -c ] [ -d delim ] variable ~prog1... ; prog2...
or in an execlineb script:
     backtick [ -n ] [ -s ] [ -C | -c ] [ -d delim ] variable { prog1... } prog2...