Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes:
> Elia Pinto <gitter.spi...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> The Git CodingGuidelines prefer the $( ... ) construct for command
>> substitution instead of using the back-quotes, or grave accents (`..`).
>>
>> The backquoted form is the historical method for command substitution,
>> and is supported by POSIX. However, all but the simplest uses become
>> complicated quickly. In particular, embedded command substitutions
>> and/or the use of double quotes require careful escaping with the backslash
>> character. Because of this the POSIX shell adopted the $(…) feature from
>> the Korn shell.
>>
>> The patch was generated by the simple script
>>
>> for _f in $(find . -name "*.sh")
>> do
>> sed -i 's@`\(.*\)`@$(\1)@g' ${_f}
>> done
>
> "and then carefully proofread" is sorely needed here.
It would already help to skip comment lines.
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David Kastrup
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