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Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Chris Taylor on 11/28/2005 3:13 AM:
> 
>>I should point out that hostname is called in /etc/profile for bash as
>>well ( HOSTNAME=`hostname` <-- should this be being changed to
>>HOSTNAME=$(hostname) at some point soon?)
> 
> 
> There is no difference in this case (both command substitution spellings
> are required by POSIX), and `hostname` is more portable to older shells
> than $(hostname).  However, since all bourne-compatible shells distributed
> with cygwin support the newer syntax, and the newer syntax is more
> readable, as well as easier to nest, it wouldn't hurt if base-files were
> updated to use $() instead of ``.
> 

The reason I mentioned it is that I'm told that the `` syntax is 
deprecated (and has been for some time), at least in scripts, ergo it 
makes sense to be moving to the newer one.. You're right though, it is a 
lot easier to read and nest, and vastly easier to read it when nested..


Chris
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