Re: PATCH: silence Shellcheck warning
Nick Bowler <[email protected]>
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On 7/21/18, Ben Elliston <[email protected]> wrote: > This patch silences a warning from Shellcheck about using old-style > `...` command substitutions. [...] > commit 4d35c7aae97234bf055519075ef03cd4090a1dfc > Author: Ben Elliston <[email protected]> > Date: Sun Jul 22 08:22:44 2018 +1000 > > * missing: Use $(..) command substitution syntax. Several shells do not support $(...) substitutions so portable scripts like 'missing' must always use backticks. I would suggest that this linter warning is spurious if not outright counterproductive. Cheers, Nick