Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> both $( ) and `` are, as i read it, part of the official Single UNIX
> Specification (therefore, they're part of POSIX),
Cool, I didn't realise that was on-line. I thought POSIX was still in
mega-bucks to access mood.
Thanks.
> which means that
> bash pretty much has to keep the older construct, at the very least
> in POSIX-compliant mode.
>
> nothing says that bash has to be POSIX-compliant in normal mode,
> though. technically, i suppose the bash developers could make any
> changes they want, and if it broke one of your scripts, well, tough,
> you don't have a bash-compliant script and you shouldn't be trying to
> run it with bash.
Sounds a good way to lose users and gain forks to me...
James.
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