[TriLUG] bash cmd line processing question

[M. Mueller (bhu5nji)]

agreed.

On Thursday 14 February 2002 02:55 pm, you wrote:
> [M. Mueller (bhu5nji)]
>
> > Thank you all.  That helps a lot.  I can't find this topic covered in
> > "Learning the bash Shell" 2nd Ed.  Looked under Symbols in index -
> > nothing. Looked in Chapter 7 on COmmand-line processing - nothing. 
> > SHould I drop an email to O'Reilly?
>
> FWIW, I tend to deprecate usage of backticks since it causes too much
> confusion when I paste commands to newbies in irc sessions, for instance.
>
> I personally prefer bash's $() capability, so:
>
> kill -SIGHUP $(cat foo)
>
> Much less confusing IMHO