On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Derek Smithies <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 14/10/15 13:49, Stephen Irons wrote: > I prefer to use $(...) rather than backticks `...` to capture stdout > from a command pipeline into a shell variable. > > Why $( ) instead of backticks ??? Backticks cannot be nested, for one. Contrived example: $ echo $(ls $(pwd)/..) -jim
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