On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 11:28 +0200, jaalto wrote:
> On 2012-02-26 09:20, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> | fwiw, it breaks even if you remember to use the right variable in the
> | second example... ;-)
> | 
> | $ foo=/etc/ld.so.conf; echo "$(head -n 1 \"$foo\")"
> | head: cannot open `"/etc/ld.so.conf"' for reading: No such file or directory
> 
> One of the benfits of POSIX command substitution is also, that there
> is no need for extra quoting:

You're missing James's point, though.  You provided a patch which broke
the script and therefore obviously hadn't been tested.  That also
demonstrated that the change isn't as trivial and simply aesthetic as
claimed.

Regards,

Adam




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