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[Jason C. Miller]

Short of legacy Bourne-shell execution, what are the cases?

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 9:35 AM Bryan J Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:

> Backticks are required in some cases though, so they do have their purpose.
>
> - bjs
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 12:07 PM Jim Cottrell <jecottrell3 at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>> STOP using Backticks!
>>
>> GOOD: var=$(command args...)
>>
>> BAD: var=`command args...`
>>
>> At the Very Least, you won't have to explain what kind of Quotes you are
>> using.
>>
>> JIM
>>
>> On 8/8/19 1:08 PM, Howard Bampton wrote:
>> > 1) Save message to a scratch file
>> > 2) egrep '(http:|https:)' /path/to/scratchfile > /path/to/newfile
>> > 3) wget `cat /path/to/newfile`
>> >
>> > The single quote marks in step 3 are back tics (`), not normal single
>> > quotes (') [aka not the quote on the same key as the double quote key]
>>
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