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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use backticks instead of $(command) to maintain /bin/sh
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Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 07:47:18 -0700
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To: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
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Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
> Hello Coworker,
> 
> 
>>huh? which broken shell does not understand $()?
> 
> 
> /bin/sh under Solaris 9 for example. That is where I hit it initial.
> 

Shoot Sun.

$(...) is in POSIX and has been for oh, what, 15 years now?

	-hpa