Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is there any real difference between $(var) and ${var}, and is the > latter as much POSIX as the first?
Depends on the context. For a shell there is a big difference between them. When interpreted by make they are identical. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."