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I think your complaining more about shell scripting rather than the terminal use itself.

• ismarc 15y ago
  I think you're underestimating how frequently some folks do things like: for x in 'seq 1 100'; do echo "something with $x"; done (Please forgive lack of backticks on my cellphone keyboard) Or many variations, like every line in a file, or result of a command piped to sed or awk and then processed. Init scripts are about the only shell scripts I write anymore, but I use frequently use it from the commandline, typically on remote terminals.
  • fluidcruft 15y ago
    Just forget backticks even exist. I now always use $(cmd) instead of `cmd`. Much easier to read and it fits in better with process substitution <(cmd). More importantly it all nests sanely $(cmd1 $(cmd2)) and works well in quotes "Blah: $(cmd1 $(cmd2))".
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