Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 21:16:38 +0200
From: Gert Doering <gert@...1296...>
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Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] bash: substitute legacy `` with modern
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To: Jan Just Keijser <janjust@...1147...>
Cc: Antonio Quartulli <a@...2181...>, David Sommerseth <openvpn@...2080...>, openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

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Hi,

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 06:19:21PM +0200, Jan Just Keijser wrote:
> my biggest complaint about the so-called modern $() notation is that it=20
> clashes/confuses the heck out of me when using proper variable usage,=20
> e.g. I find
>    output=3D`${SOME_COMMAND} ${SOME_ARGS}`
> much better readable than
>    output=3D$(${SOME_COMMAND} ${SOME_ARGS})
>=20
> especially since you are allowed to **NEST** $() strings, IIRC. Things li=
ke
>=20
>    output=3D$(${cmd} $(${cmd2}))
>=20
> work, and in my view, thank god that you cannot do that using backtics ;)

well, yes, what you say :-)=20

(but I thought this was just my old age showing... having learned shell
scripting on a SCO Unix box, with only a *true* bourne shell installed,
no korn shell, no bash...)

gert
--=20
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