Quick Shell script question

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Fri Jun 4 12:26:06 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 22:16, Thierry ITTY wrote:
> test1=$(pwd)
> 
> much readable than backticks (test1=`pwd`), less confusing, avoids typos, etc

But several additional keystrokes when you consider the shift key is
used.  At least in my case, that leads to more typos...  :-)

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