Hi, On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Jari Aalto wrote: > * Tue 2008-02-05 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> > * Message-Id: alpine.LSU.1.00.0802052226340.8543@xxxxxxxxxx > > > On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Jari Aalto wrote: > > > >> Use redable $(<command>) syntax instead of backtics in code. See The > >> Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition > > > > Sorry, I am not quite sure if this patch is worth it: either you want > > to clean this up in _all_ of our shell scripts, or you leave it. > > Yes, that's the plan. This is just a start. Again, you failed to address me. FYI my email address is johannes.schindelin@xxxxxxx Thank you very much. "This is just a start" is not good enough. First, you have to defend why this is a good change. It does not really fix anything. And then you have to do it for all scripts in one go. Mind you, it is not really complicated: just one call to perl. Hth, 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