Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > I was thinking about perhaps replacing the backticks (`) in the > configure commands of the GNOME packages to $(command) syntax, but > it occurred to me that $(command) might be a bashism and other shells > (zsh, csh, etc.) might not understand them. > > Does anybody know right offhand if $(command) syntax is a bash-only > thing? >
I didn't have an answer to the question, so left my comment to now. Backticks appear to be a support nightmare, particularly so as they are one of the variable position keys on even English keyboards - A UK keyboard has them in the far top left corner, unshifted. If you can move to $() without too many [csh etc.] users suffering then you should. Comments are good, and a stern warning in the intro also useful. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
