On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Jerry <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:02:22 -0800 > Rob Farmer <[email protected]> articulated: > >> Have you used the default FreeBSD shell (tcsh) recently? >> >> [rfarmer@sapphire] ~> echo $(date ) >> Illegal variable name. > > Since I use Bash as my default shell, I never suffer from that problem. > I was wondering if anyone had ever files a PR against that behavior > though?
why would they add $() support for *csh? the whole shell is pretty far away from posix, and there's no reason to change its syntax since it's not used for scripting (this thread is really funny) > > -- > Jerry ✌ > [email protected] > > Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. > Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. > __________________________________________________________________ > > Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the > rage today, and it will set the pace tomorrow. > > > Franklin K. Dane > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
