Thomas Adam wrote:

On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 09:41:11PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:


but for readability, don't use back-ticks. Instead
WORD=$(sed -ne 's/^.*\(icewm\).*$/\1/p' < /home.local/snert/.xinitrc)



$(..) is not as portable as ``.




On what sh equivalents does it not work? I've just tried dash and sh --posix and those are fine. I've previously used it in busybox.



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