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Command substitution is a useful way to take the output of one command and use it as an argument in another command.
The first way is the more modern way, and is really the only way that you want to use. You surround the command that you want to substitute with parentheses, and then precede it with a dollar-sign. Here, we’re using echo to show the output of date.
echo $(date)
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