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On 06/04/2014 08:31 AM, J. David Boyd wrote:
> Eric Blake <eblake AT redhat DOT com> writes:
>=20
>>
>> see why `` is obsolete, and you should be using $()?  Among other
>> reasons, \ inside `` has weird rules.
>>
>=20
> Wow, when did this happen?  I've been using `` for years, and never heard=
 of
> $().  What version did this change?

$() has existed in all sh variant shells except Solaris /bin/sh pretty
much since the 80s; it was standardized in POSIX in the 90s. (On
Solaris, you have to use /usr/xpg4/bin/sh instead of /bin/sh to get it)

--=20
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