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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: suggestion (was Re: 1.7.7: Localization does not follow the language of the OS)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:29:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110113132840.GC25033@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A209BD8DAF7B@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov>

On Jan 13 08:07, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> So if one wants to use something that always works, use $().  But when

I disagree, see below...

> `command` works, there is no reason not to use it if one wants to.
> Personally, I still use backticks fairly often.
>   (1) On my keyboard, they are significantly easier to type than $().
>   (2) It is a habit; $() did not exist when I started to learn scripting.

I use them almost exclusively on the command line, for the simple reason
that I'm using tcsh, which doesn't know the $() syntax.  Therefore, from
*my* point of view as a tcsh user, "if one wants to use something that
always works, use backticks ;)


Corinna

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-13 13:29 UTC|newest]

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2011-01-13 13:08           ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2011-01-13 13:29             ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2011-01-13 15:49             ` Christopher Faylor

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