[GRLUG] Shell Scripting Term?
Adam Tauno Williams
awilliam at whitemice.org
Sun Aug 28 10:50:26 EDT 2011
On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 10:46 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> I took my official shell scripting class a long time ago now.
> In a shell script you can combine a sequence of commands into a single
> stream by encapsulating them in parathesis, like -
> (echo -e "Hello, \c"; cat name.txt) | sort
> Is there a specific name/term for doing this?
Doh! Of course as soon as you give up trying to find it and post the
question... the answer materializes on the screen.
"parenthesized subexpression"
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