"cygpath -u" inside backticks differs

Wed Jun 4 15:48:00 GMT 2014

On 06/04/2014 08:31 AM, J. David Boyd wrote:
> Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> writes:
>>>>> see why `` is obsolete, and you should be using $()? Among other
>> reasons, \ inside `` has weird rules.
>>>> Wow, when did this happen? I've been using `` for years, and never heard of
> $(). What version did this change?

$() has existed in all sh variant shells except Solaris /bin/sh pretty
much since the 80s; it was standardized in POSIX in the 90s. (On
Solaris, you have to use /usr/xpg4/bin/sh instead of /bin/sh to get it)
-- 
Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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