Re: [RP] Ratpoison for laptop and apm

[Jonathan Walther]

Using `` these days is considered very bad style. $() looks better and
is much more flexible and robust.  `` is just too damn fragile.  It's
an onion in the varnish.  If not for POSIX, all the modern
shell programs would have eliminated support for `` already.

Jonathan

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:23:28PM +0100, Christian Gennerat wrote:
> Gergely Nagy a ?crit :
> > ratpoison -c "message $(apm-status)"
> ratpoison -c "echo `apm`"
> and get that I want, because the shell replaces `apm` by the report of apm 
> command.
> echo `apm`

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