Circa 2002-Feb-24 00:51:21 -0500 dixit Kyle Donaldson:

: On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Jan Schaumann wrote:
: > I'm no sh-wiz, but wouldn't 
: > 
: > WINDOW_IDS=`xlsclients -l | grep Window | sed s/"Window "// | sed s/://`
: > 
: > work in /bin/sh work?
: 
: It should, but I would place it inside double-quotes, because more than one
: continous string is involved. (continous: without spaces or newlines)

Depends.  This document:

  http://www.gnu.org/manual/autoconf-2.52/html_chapter/autoconf_10.html

seems to indicate that X="`blah`" is less portable than X=`blah`.

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