[wplug] very simple bash question..

[Vance Kochenderfer]

Tim Lesher <tim at lesher.ws> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 09:32:42AM -0500, Eric Cooper wrote:
> > or: var=$(ps aux | wc -l)
> 
> Is this a bashism, or does it work with sh proper?  (I don't have my

Don't know where it originated, but looking on a Solaris system, ksh,
zsh, and bash all support the $(command) syntax, while sh, csh, and
tcsh only support `command`.

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