whoami and bash

[Alessandro Brezzi]

Hi,

2007/7/12, Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com>:
>
> Those two are examples are the same.  If the first didn't work, you
> probably used single quote characters (') instead of backticks (`).  The
> backtick should be on the same key as the tilde (~).


personally I prefer the $( ) form, the backticks can produce semantically
ambigous form: you cannot nest command substitution this way

-- 
Alessandro Brezzi
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