On 7/21/18, Ben Elliston <b...@air.net.au> wrote: > This patch silences a warning from Shellcheck about using old-style > `...` command substitutions. [...] > commit 4d35c7aae97234bf055519075ef03cd4090a1dfc > Author: Ben Elliston <b...@air.net.au> > Date: Sun Jul 22 08:22:44 2018 +1000 > > * missing: Use $(..) command substitution syntax.
Several shells do not support $(...) substitutions so portable scripts like 'missing' must always use backticks. I would suggest that this linter warning is spurious if not outright counterproductive. Cheers, Nick
