Am 20.06.2011 10:21, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:30:12 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > >>> I might be wrong but as I understand it, cron executes your commands >>> in /bin/sh, not /bin/bash. >> >> /bin/sh is a symlink to bash. > > Which runs as sh when run from the symlink. > >
Interestingly, the new style of command substitution has been added to the POSIX standard. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/ I always thought bash was just lazy when it accepted that syntax in sh mode and therefore could fail if you use dash as a sh replacement or something alike. Well, lifelong learning ... Regards, Florian Philipp
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