On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 09:31 -0600, Gabriel Gunderson wrote:
> "Stuart's Rules of Shell Scripting"

> > 2) Backticks are evil, use $() instead.
> 
> Why?

I have seen far too many people confuse backticks with single quotes.
It's an issue of readability.

The world would be a better place if experienced *nix users agreed to:

1) Use $() instead of ``.
2) Use "chmod a=r,u+w" instead of "chmod 644"
3) Use "umask u=rwx,g=rx,o=" instead of "umask 027"

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