On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Johnathon Tinsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Matthew Wild wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Johnathon Tinsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> No change, even after removing and re-installing firefox again. How do >>> you tell which firefox binary is fired on the command "firefox"? >>> >> >> ls -l $(which firefox) >> > > Thanks! :) > > Using ls -l `which firefox` we worked out that we were calling the wrong > binary. Out of interest, whats the difference between $(command) and > `command` in bash shell? >
Nothing but readability, as far as I am aware. I use `this` myself, but $() when writing for other people, otherwise I have to get into a long discussion about the difference between ` and ' and where to find it on the keyboard :) Matthew. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
