Command substitution: backticks or dollar sign / paren enclosed? [duplicate]
There are several questions/issues here, so I’ll repeat each section of the poster’s text, block-quoted, and followed by my response. What’s the preferred syntax, and why? Or are they pretty much interchangeable? I would say that the $(some_command) form is preferred over the `some_command` form. The second form, using a pair of backquotes (the “`” … Read more