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In alt.os.linux.slackware, Faux_Pseudo dared to utter,
> [0] layered?

Nested is what I meant. I couldn't think of the word at the time.

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Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
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Hicks, Alan
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+Alan Hicks+ <alan@lizella.network> wrote:
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> In alt.os.linux.slackware, Faux_Pseudo dared to utter,
>> [0] layered?
>
> Nested is what I meant. I couldn't think of the word at the time.
>
> - --
> It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
> Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
> Ecclesiastes 7:5
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In alt.os.linux.slackware, notbob dared to utter,
> I can see the advantages, but how is it the "new" hip way? I've started
> learning bash programming and the bash-programming-intro-howto advises $(),
> mentioning left ticks as an afterthought, and it's 4 years old.

Because most people and most scripts still use back-ticks. Call it
inertia, call it bad programming, call it what you will, but $() is
still the bew kid on the block and back-ticks are the crusty old geiser
that people still use because they are comfortable with him.

- --
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:5
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+Alan Hicks+ <alan@lizella.network> wrote:
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> In alt.os.linux.slackware, notbob dared to utter,
>> I can see the advantages, but how is it the "new" hip way? I've started
>> learning bash programming and the bash-programming-intro-howto advises $(),
>> mentioning left ticks as an afterthought, and it's 4 years old.
>
> Because most people and most scripts still use back-ticks. Call it
> inertia, call it bad programming, call it what you will, but $() is
> still the bew kid on the block and back-ticks are the crusty old geiser
> that people still use because they are comfortable with him.
>
> - --
> It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
> Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
> Ecclesiastes 7:5
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On 2004-09-27, +Alan Hicks+ <alan@lizella.netWORK> wrote:

> still the bew kid on the block and back-ticks are the crusty old geiser
> that people still use because they are comfortable with him.

OK ...thanks for that. BTW....

s/geiser/geezer/

nb ...been there, am that