Process Substitution
In this lesson, you will learn about process substitution, a handy way to save time and make scripts more concise and elegant. What you’ll learn will also allow you to capture the output of a command into a variable so that you can use it in other contexts or access it later.
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How Important is this Lesson?
I spent years reading and writing bash before I understood this concept, so this lesson can be skipped. However, since I learned about process substitution, I use it on the command line almost every day, so I recommend you learn it at some point.
Simple Process Substitution
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