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| [[Anchor(faq82)]] == Why is $(...) preferred over `...` (backticks)? == For several reasons: * It's easier to read. The character {{{`}}} is difficult to read with small or unusual fonts. * It's easier to type. The physical key to produce the character may be located in an obscure place on non-US keyboards. * The backtick is easily confused with a single quote. People who see {{{$()}}} don't normally press the wrong keys. On the other hand, some people who see {{{`cmd`}}} may mangle it into {{{'cmd'}}} because they don't know what a backtick is. * It makes nesting command substitutions easier. Compare: {{{ x=$(grep $(dirname "$path") file) x=`grep \`dirname "$path"\` file`}}} It just gets uglier and uglier after two levels. * Backslashes (\) inside backticks are handled in a non-obvious manner: {{{ $ echo "`echo \\a`" "$(echo \\a)" a \a $ echo "`echo \\\\a`" "$(echo \\\\a)" \a \\a}}} * Nested quoting inside {{{$()}}} is far more convenient. {{{ echo "x is $(echo "$y" | sed ...)"}}} In this example, the quotes around {{{$y}}} are treated as a pair, because they are inside {{{$()}}}. This is confusing at first glance, because most C programmers would expect the quote before {{{x}}} and the quote before {{{$y}}} to be treated as a pair; but that isn't correct in shells. On the other hand, {{{ echo "x is `echo \"$y\" | sed ...`"}}} requires backslashes around the internal quotes in order to be portable. Bourne and Korn shells require these backslashes, while Bash and dash don't. Backslashes are no more no less surprising than elsewhere IMHO {{{ echo `echo \a` # prints a echo `echo \\a` # prints a echo `echo \\\a` # prints \a echo `echo \\\\a` # prints \a echo $(echo \a) # prints a echo $(echo \\a) # prints \a echo $(echo \\\a) # prints \a echo $(echo \\\\a) # prints \\a }}} The same sort of things happens without any quotes or within "". I suspect the real advantage of $( ) here is that you don't need to take extra care of the quotes (\ ""), you just put them as usual, ie {{{echo "`echo \"foo bar\"`"}}} vs {{{echo "$( echo "foo bar")"}}} -- pgas ''Just for the record, \" inside {{{`backticks`}}} is only required in Korn shell and Bourne shell. Bash and dash both treat'' {{{ echo "`echo "foo bar"`"}}} ''exactly the same way they treat'' {{{ echo "$(echo "foo bar")"}}} ''although this is an excellent point that I'm going to add to the bullet list up above.'' -- GreyCat The only time backticks are preferred is when writing code for the oldest Bourne shells, which do not know about {{{$()}}}. |
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