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                 |  | UGU: Unix Guru Universe - Unix Tip #4591- October  6, 2025
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POWER OF BACKQUOTES 
Backquotes are the most powerful things in Unix. More than one
 Unix commands can be run simultaneously on the prompt.
 In csh,
 
 % find . -name "*.txt" -print
 
 gives the path & names of the files with extension ".txt" in
 current directory and its subdirectories. If you want to open
 these files in vi together then
 
 % vi `find . -name "*.txt" -print`
 
 Similarly,
 
 % find . -name "*.txt" -print
 
 % vi `!!`
 
 this will open all those files in vi listed by find command.
 
 
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