Bash Quirkiness

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 26 July 2004 20:25, James Wilkinson wrote:
>Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>> $(foo) is the current notation and some day ` ` (backticks) will
>> go away from bash (by it's developers).
>
>OUCH!
>
>I hope not. That will break more UNIX setups than any other
> changeover I've ever heard of.

I concur, this will break half the stuff I use, or more.  Yee Gods, 
what kind of insanity is this?  Remove the backticks indeed.

>Yes, $() is more elegant, but the sheer weight of legacy `` means
> that I'd back the backticks over the bash maintainers in any battle
> for their continued survival...
>
>James.
>
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