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Re: how does bash parse back-ticks, anyway?


From: Matthew Woehlke
Subject: Re: how does bash parse back-ticks, anyway?
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:29:21 -0500
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Eric Blake wrote:
According to Matthew Woehlke on 4/2/2007 5:09 PM:
If nothing else, I'll stand by it being a bash bug, if only in the docs
because they are not sufficiently clear. :-)


The POSIX rules here are [snip]

Ok, but the man page is still unclear. :-)

(Sigh. Curse Solaris and their broken /bin/sh that makes it impossible to write portable scripts with $() :-(.)

--
Matthew
Obscurity: +5





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