Paul, All, On Wednesday 19 November 2008 18:28:33 Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 18:01 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > > Do not forget that back-ticks are not POSIX, while $() is. > Uh... what?!?! That's absolutely not true. Backticks are > unquestionably defined in the POSIX sh definition. They are not marked > as "old" or "deprecated" or anything similar.
Woops... Sorry... I was too quick and didn't check. I thought I read that somewhere, but couldn't find it again. I just checked with: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02 and you're right. Next time, I won't trust my memory without checking first. Sorry. > It's easier to nest command substitutions with $() and there is a very > slight difference in handling backslashes, but otherwise there is no > difference between them. Yes. > > Even bash considers the use of back-ticks (backquotes) to > > be /old-style/. > They don't mean it in a pejorative sense. They just mean it as a > description: it _IS_ old-style. But that doesn't make backticks wrong > or bad or to be avoided. Full quote: > When the old-style backquote form of substitution is used, ... I didn't mean it was pejorative. I was just using /old-style/ as quoting the bash manual. > Since `` is perfectly standards-compliant AND it's far more portable > than $(), What makes you say it's /far more portable than $()/ ? Is that because $() was introduced after `` (if so is the case)? > I don't see any reason to avoid `` except as a matter of > style. Right. I do apologise. Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +0/33 662376056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | --==< ^_^ >==-- `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | `------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------' _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox