Hi Elia, On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Elia Pinto wrote: > From the git coding guideline : "We prefer $( ... ) for command > substitution; unlike ``, it properly nests. It should have been the way > Bourne spelled it from day one, but unfortunately isn't." There was only one time in my life as a developer when I had to change a $(...) to a `...` construct. I do not really remember all the details, but I think it was on MacOSX, and it was inside a case ... esac and the closing parentheses was mistaken for a case arm (the $(...) construct might have been multi-line, is the only thing that would make sense in my mind. Did you hear of similar problems? Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html