nous comments on Which command substitution do you prefer in shell scripts: backquotes `` or $() syntax?

submitted 1 year ago by kiri@ani.social to c/linux@programming.dev

Looks like $(...) is better, but I still pretty often see `...` in some articles.

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[–] nous@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Why wrap it in a function at all? Why not just put the if at the top of the file?

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