Steve, Debian is transitioning from using bash to using dash, the latter shell seems closer to the magic posix standard. The guys at debian are scouring everything for what they call "bashisms" with the object of greater standardization around the posix benchmarks. At least that is my understanding of the issues here. Chuck On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 09:32:55AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > This is more a unix shell script question than anything but I'm > curious; why the recent changes as denoted in the git update below and > this subject line: > use $() instead of backticks in talkwith > I may not be super current on shell script behavior and trends byt why > is $(command) better than `command`? I've alwys used the tic marks > because I've seen that most often used. No better reason than that > but I figured I can change my approach if this other deal is better or > more appropriate. > > Curious minds would love to know. <smile> > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (75% of Full) My personal website: hallenbeck.ftml.net Software: edway.ftml.net, and Blog: edway.wordpress.com My Jabber ID: chuckh1 at jabber.org (beware the silent h!) -------- Some people claim that the Linux learning curve is steep, but at least you only have to climb it once.
