[NTLUG:Discuss] Scripting help

[Eric Schnoebelen]

Steve Litt writes:
- On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 00:02:55 -0500
- Rusty Haddock <rusty at fe2o3.lonestar.org> wrote:
- > I'm starting to be won over by the $( commands ) notation
- > instead of grave accents.
- 
- I thought that was valid only on bash, but it just worked for me on
- dash, zsh and ksh. Maybe I'll start using that instead of backticks.

$() was specified as part of the POSIX.2 shell standard, as I
recall. So any shell that claims to be POSIX conforming
(starting with ksh86, as I recall) will support the $() syntax.

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