On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:10:54PM -0500, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 06:58:10PM +0100, Damien Bergamini wrote: > > any particular reason to use a syntax different from the one > > in the drivers man pages? > > > > i.e: > > ifconfig wpi0 wpa wpapsk `wpa-psk wlan supersecret` > > instead of: > > ifconfig wpi0 nwid wlan wpa wpapsk $(wpa-psk wlan supersecret) > > `<technobabble>` is sh, $(<technobabble>) is ksh. I believe both > work on our sh. As long as one is not doing any quoting inside I > don't think there is much difference although I prefer $(). >
But $(<technobabble>) does not work in csh and clones. So `<technobabble>` is more portable. Not everyone is using ksh. -- :wq Claudio
