On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:31:02AM -0600, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 09:18 -0600, Stuart Jansen wrote: > > Stuart Rules of Shell Scripting: > > Was that supposed to be... > > "Stuart's Rules of Shell Scripting" > > Or > > "Stuart Rules at Shell Scripting" > > ?
Yes. Although perhaps the first should have been: "Stuart\'s Rules of Shell Scripting". > > > > 2) Backticks are evil, use $() instead. > > Why? Because * Back ticks are deprecated, and in future may be used for something else. * One can nest $(), but not back ticks. * In some fonts, back ticks may be confused with ticks, producing programming errors, where in most fonts parentheses are not easily confused with other characters. * $() shows up better when one uses Emacs' parentheses matching minor mode. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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