Is not the same... Backticks keeps newlines, but $() merges all lines
into a single one. I'm not sure if this behaviour is affected by IFS
On Apr 7, 2010, at 4:01 AM, Noah Birnel <nbir...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 01:03:55PM -0400, n...@lavabit.com wrote:
Semi unrelated question: why are so many people at suckless using ` `
instead of $( ) ? I've seen it here, dmenu_path, surf's config.h...
etc.
$( ) only fails in very, very old shells... think original bourne
I use backticks out of habit... and maybe ignorance. Can you explain
your preference?
--Noah
