Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Of course they do. They are entirely different things. The first one is > for quoting strings which might contain Shell metacharacters. The second > is to execute a command and insert its output as the value of the > string, e.g. > > ls -l `find ~/.kde` > > This is equivalent to: > > ls -l $(find ~/.kde) > > but the latter is a more recent form (it has the advantage of being > nestable, which the older form isn't). Thank you. That explains it well. I will read up a bit, too. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines