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Re: [PATCH]: git-merge-one-file-script use /usr/bin/env to call bash · Junio C Hamano <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH] Use backticks instead of $(command) to maintain /bin/sh compatibility · Thomas Glanzmann <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: [PATCH] Use backticks instead of $(command) to maintain /bin/sh compatibility · bert hubert <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: [PATCH] Use backticks instead of $(command) to maintain /bin/sh compatibility · Thomas Glanzmann <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: [PATCH] Use backticks instead of $(command) to maintain /bin/sh compatibility · Martin Waitz <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: [PATCH] Use backticks instead of $(command) to maintain /bin/sh compatibility · Morten Welinder <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: [PATCH] Use backticks instead of $(command) to maintain /bin/sh compatibility · Thomas Glanzmann <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: [PATCH] Use backticks instead of $(command) to maintain /bin/sh compatibility · "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> · 2016-06-15

Re: [PATCH] Use backticks instead of $(command) to maintain /bin/sh compatibility

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:41:56

Thomas Glanzmann wrote:

Hello Coworker,

quoted

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