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They did it also because with the old syntax it was unintuitive how to put commands inside quotes. It borrowed the new syntax from bash but it wasn't ONLY to be
by Osiris 5y ago
They did it also because with the old syntax it was unintuitive how to put commands inside quotes. It borrowed the new syntax from bash but it wasn't ONLY to be more bash compatible. It solved a real fish shell problem also.
- cpach 5y agoNitpick: The $(…) syntax was not invented by GNU, it was invented by Kenneth Almquist at the University of Washington. https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/ash/#original https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/ash/#original
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