From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MvzDV-00077v-Uf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:04:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DAE92E0E43; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 20:04:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f220.google.com (mail-fx0-f220.google.com [209.85.220.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E651E0E43 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 20:04:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm20 with SMTP id 20so6052254fxm.14 for ; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:04:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=L+p7xs32DNR8eJMw9njb0PQHpt8+b61X9QBO1x/kfjw=; b=WVNx8Mg50O2sueGlyYRY2ssG6KzA6pl1ZkN/kd5Hx40n+IyDCrOj5QuUoPphd47Xjf 7NjolKFcmzqsAssaRnSnvPkETKT63XiRDh47z2JKvkkXSnCUQt5cbWoDwYHDCJT4Oqug KIrBRzlP8yMrjtqpuzXorzxyfRKMk1Yvmri98= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=q48jGorSj3y88uAMNP+51hXb/z5jl7yBLZgmYL8R+gzMxIRyRJVtTDvSA4PMLJaxhP sdxv1uEOG/ruRFdy+LwT0AfquZ6ZjnO4ilSrJpQ0HljJ5pcFQHuXxuP5hqpRTAwKJ6GV OjwGSVpLkycNUO0T8YyH4pQJJ+jU4/lapvMYA= Received: by 10.103.78.35 with SMTP id f35mr689409mul.89.1255032239928; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:03:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet ([196.210.202.225]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u9sm241492muf.31.2009.10.08.13.03.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:03:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 22:02:54 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Nikos Chantziaras References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910082202.54192.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 62f3f528-26c7-41f9-a3f8-0c47d1fc192d X-Archives-Hash: 8e03e36fddc40e504c0fb3421231842b On Thursday 08 October 2009 21:27:57 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 10/08/2009 10:19 PM, James Ausmus wrote: > > I've used it before - I can't remember what is was for, but I do > > remember using nested $() commands... > > > > Isn't ` being deprecated (by BASH at least) anyway? > > Hopefully not! It's just two key presses to type "``". "$()" takes 4 > (shift+4+9, command, shift+0). $() is more consistent with other syntax elements in bash, It's essentially the same thing as evaluating a variable and inserting it's value. The `` syntax is a wild anachronism from days long ago that is completely at odds with everything else in the shell. Well, you can say that about many things in bash, but that's not a good reason to not fix anything... IIRC correctly it's not really deprecated either - that implies the thing will go away some time. It's more "strongly advised not to use it" > > What's easier than simply pressing one single key? :-/ Ummm, not having to look for it and find it first before pressing it? How about a keyboard that doesn't have it at all? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com