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I think you might be confusing $() with (). There is no functional difference between backticks and $(), the only difference is in how they are parsed with rega

I think you might be confusing $() with (). There is no functional difference between backticks and $(), the only difference is in how they are parsed with regards to escaping. There is no subshell involved in either case.

Annatar 8y ago
After I‘ve been professionally programming in the original Bourne shell, tcsh, ksh for more than 30 years, you took it upon yourself to tell me that I‘m confusing $() and ()? Only on “Hacker News”. Appalling.