> FWIW, I tend to deprecate usage of backticks since it causes too much > confusion when I paste commands to newbies in irc sessions, for instance. > > I personally prefer bash's $() capability, so:
Without bothering to look this up, I've got a question. Is this only a bash-ishm at this point? Have the other shells migrated to this form? For instance I know tcsh,csh and Perl understand the backtick form (among many others probably). If all the shells are migrating to it, then it would make since to me to deprecate it in my scripts. Otherwise, I think the common theme of usage makes more sense. -- jonathan rippy
