Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On Friday 31 May 2002 11:10 am, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
>> Btw. please explain to me why ${FDFILE} is used instead of $FDFILE
>>
>> It is not very usual.
>
| Not this again. You prefer one and the whole rest of the world prefers the
| other. Ask Andre.
Andre is not the whole world.
I read a lot of shell scripts and this contruct is not often used.
(it is often used, but almost never for plain variables)
shellfiles are list of all the shell scripts in /usr/bin
egrep "^" `cat /tmp/shellfiles` | wc
35935 155976 1298750
egrep "\\\$" `cat /tmp/shellfiles` | wc
10850 65073 540283
egrep "\\\$\{[^}]*\}" `cat /tmp/shellfiles` | wc
861 4799 49498
egrep "\\\$\{[^-}]*\}" `cat /tmp/shellfiles` | wc
699 4215 41043
egrep "\\\$[a-zA-Z].*" `cat /tmp/shellfiles` | wc
8613 53039 443958
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