Bash Command Substitution

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Overview

Command substitution allows us to take the stdout output of a command or function, which would normally be sent to stdout of the executing shell, and save it as the value of a variable. To do this we place the command or the function within brackets, preceded by a $ sign.

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local content
content=$(ps -ef)