On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:16:26AM -0600, Gabriel Gunderson wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 09:58 -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> > > Why?
> > 
> > Because

> > * Back ticks are deprecated, and in future may be used for something
> >   else.
> I've never heard of this.  Interesting.

> I'd be interested in reading about the back tick being deprecated.
> Any links?  I'll just google if not.

I thought I had read that in Newham and Rosenblatt, Learning the Bash
Shell, O'Reilly,2nd. ed., but on a quick search I don't see it. They
do refer to it as "archaic" (Table 1-6). In a footnote on page 103
they say it is there for backward compatibility. The man page is
silent on deprecation. So I could be wrong on that.

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