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Re: [Help-bash] Evaluations of backticks in if statements


From: Seth David Schoen
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] Evaluations of backticks in if statements
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 09:31:15 -0800
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30)

Greg Wooledge writes:

> Point is, it's crap.  Stop doing it.  Chet has to worry about making
> bash handle all of this crap in exactly the right way that POSIX
> dictates.  You, as a script writer, do not need to worry about this.
> Just don't do it.  Problem solved.

I've never written code like this and don't expect to; I'm just
curious about what the behavior is.

-- 
Seth David Schoen <address@hidden>      |  No haiku patents
     http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/        |  means I've no incentive to
  8F08B027A5DB06ECF993B4660FD4F0CD2B11D2F9  |        -- Don Marti



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