On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Erik Curiel wrote:
> Brandon is right about the reason, but ever since Bash 2.0 there's been a
> more elegant (and preferred) way to populuate a variable with a value
> resulting from the execution of a command. A dollar sign immediately
> prepended to a command-line enclosed by parentheses acts as a variable
> whose value is the final result of the command-line. So in this example,
> the way to do it might be:
He wasn't writing a bash script. He was writing a shell
script (#!/bin/sh). Assuming that /bin/sh -> /usr/bin/bash
is only valid in Linux, which means your script will break
in everything else.
> Back-ticks are now deprecated in Bash.
Much to the annoyance of thousands of shell script writers
everywhere.
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