[email protected] wrote: >The key difference is that $( command list ) is nestable without >quoting, backticks are not.
[snip] >The functionality is common in a number of shells other than bash, >though I'm not quite sure which. I believe the Unix posix-compliant >(bastardized korn) and possibly korn shells support it. Looking through the shells I have installed, ash and zsh support it too. As I remember, it only appeared in bash as of version 2. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
