Re: [PATCH 2/8] Do not use shell's old-style command substitution

Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]>
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Rene Kita wrote in
 <[email protected]>:
 |To quote the BashFAQ[0]:
 |Why is $(...) preferred over `...` (backticks)?
 |
 |The `cmd` backtick format is the legacy syntax for command substitution,
 |required only by more than 30-year-old Bourne shells. ...
 |
 |[0]: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/082

Sven Mascheck is widely known to be always good on interest:

  https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/cmd-subst/

Btw the Plan9 rc shell of the really great ones use[sd] `{ .. },
or even only `cmd for one command.

  https://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/2nd_edition/papers/rc/

There is a POSIX port at

  https://github.com/rakitzis/rc.git

--steffen
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