just another one of my rumblings
Denys Vlasenko
vda.linux at googlemail.com
Fri Apr 25 08:21:32 UTC 2008
On Thursday 24 April 2008 21:09, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> `...` and $(...) are posix and equivalent. I find $(...) easier to use
> and cleaner, as nesting is much easier when using $(...). Mixing the two
> in one and the same script easily leads to controversy. Picking on
> testsuite/runtest this time ;-) See for example this line in the named
> script:
>
> [ -n "$bindir" ] || bindir=$(dirname $(pwd))
>
> Can someone provide a backtick equivalent example?
It's ugly:
`dirname \`pwd\``
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