X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type; q=dns; s=default; b=QsDoTC PyFpOg3C7JLl8djaUhSAFfCCiuLJDsy6FNyHyhb5iT67Cs6Fp7YEWYNbicG9QWUc wNBdvoSDO57lkDyXlLVIy9wPn9L2dBpvydBf9g9qkBYbK7mpBeATeQr9kNTXEOwX h4n9hCqetDnShDoVN3HUgXi7OwbGeUiADuMRI= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type; s=default; bh=mpQ5Q9oa4QUe eTSEOAP+EjU1hjI=; b=oUrrw4nTIUjCGuG4glnMc6YY64OkmXNU793NKO4wQNKP 4m8NZG9/yVbX4ehyOirYG3S+Fu9KWcQW9HCO0d97DSCtKOjN+dnkoCmOEyeOjj8C uGcXkkMzLJrli27S/LYFPA1gejeNvlWVzhSKp4y7zdq7Z6Yk0FYuGvq16U1pAds= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Message-ID: <538F3FB2.6060102@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 09:48:02 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: "cygpath -u" inside backticks differs References: <20140604012839 DOT GA17012 AT praz2 DOT hsd1 DOT ma DOT comcast DOT net> <538E7D3C DOT 5020501 AT redhat DOT com> In-Reply-To: OpenPGP: url=http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="9l88EoJQJubciBAkHICQckEPSP0D6jIdH" X-IsSubscribed: yes --9l88EoJQJubciBAkHICQckEPSP0D6jIdH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 06/04/2014 08:31 AM, J. David Boyd wrote: > Eric Blake 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 see why `` is obsolete, and you should be using $()?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 Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --9l88EoJQJubciBAkHICQckEPSP0D6jIdH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJTjz+yAAoJEKeha0olJ0NqJ9wIAJTMVEt6a7SlGMMzfQW+j3He 1a4XdKtI3tzlXQJKXfFwE4NBGQZzcwz6kcAYK/DmLbjmsEYCCM0Ewu9+tyqnNNRv nDTPk4AGoSt7fuh8wT7HU1cHeqAcihuii5LNZwthsuEOwW16TAmg/g4DfsAsbNqC HDcNtMzYjP3vGmHkdO3daOdl7qX6TOwZy3I8OK/GmX00xVRbw7dDcUDVYMDXoWrc GCQt039l4M/pGdC4YKZ8nYnKz0b6sFRihfPodEgVo/UJ3gVl+d+4EFGfHpEv+yjO WrlJpsXqruPGio47OvqSN95I4g7VkHiZ8/2mWyMDyg1EypK/Y+YBxS38Yr8DWLU= =RByL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9l88EoJQJubciBAkHICQckEPSP0D6jIdH--