On Sam, 2006-03-18 at 08:24 -0500, Bryan Kadzban wrote:
> DJ Lucas wrote:
> > for FILE in `echo 
> > linux/{acct.h,quota.h,resource.h,socket.h,stat.h,time.h,timex.h,un.h,wait.h}`
> 
> Er, hang on here -- why are the echo and the backquotes in there?  (I
> should note that they're in Jürg's script as well.)  They gain nothing,
> and waste at least one process.  (I believe this is one of the Useless
> Uses of Backticks, but I could be wrong on that.)

It's right that they gain nothing in the for loops. I've added the
"backticks" to the REMOVE_HEADERS lines on purpose, though, as the shell
doesn't expand braces when defining variables but probably there is a
better way to get expanded variables, don't know.

Jürg

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