Hi, On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 12:04:12AM +0100, Harald Becker wrote: > Hi Matthew ! > >I've heard rumors that backticks are discouraged in favor of $( )... > >Can we do the same for . in favor of source? You can't exactly grep > >for '.' > > It was just a hint for novices that both syntax forms behave identical > and description may be used for both. There was no preference which > form shall be used, otherwise you are right. I prefer $() and source > within scripts and tend to use backticks and dot on command line.
"source" is bashism, and "." should be preferred for portability. A. _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
