On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 08:51:38AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > As other people have pointed out, the way to capture a command's output > is with $(command) (or `command`, though this is a bashism).
$(command) is bashism. `command` is the "pure" bourne shell form. $ posh $ echo `echo hi` hi $ echo $(echo hi) hi And likewise on dash and busybox ash, which are the other shells I have here. IIRC latest posix includes $(command) as well. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org