Backtick versus $()

[Andres Perera]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Jerry <freebsd.user at seibercom.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:02:22 -0800
> Rob Farmer <rfarmer at predatorlabs.net> articulated:
>
>> Have you used the default FreeBSD shell (tcsh) recently?
>>
>> [rfarmer at sapphire] ~> echo $(date )
>> Illegal variable name.
>
> Since I use Bash as my default shell, I never suffer from that problem.
> I was wondering if anyone had ever files a PR against that behavior
> though?

why would they add $() support for *csh? the whole shell is pretty far away
from posix, and there's no reason to change its syntax since it's not used for
scripting

(this thread is really funny)

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