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date # Calling the date command just displays date/time information
echo date # Here "date" is treated as a literal word, and written to output
echo `date` # The date command is evaluated and its output replaces the command
today=$( date ); echo $today # environment variable "today" is assigned today's date
today="Today is: `date`"; echo $today # "today" is assigned a string including today's date |
Exercise 3-5
How would you output this text using a command to calculate the number of lines: The haiku.txt file has 11 lines
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