[ale] Stupid Bash Question

[Jim Kinney]

I don't recall the source but I read the backticks are to concidered
deprecated.  Maybe in the bash 4 release notes?
On Mar 7, 2012 5:12 PM, "Michael Campbell" <michael.campbell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> One advantage of $() over `` is that you get matching opposing pairs of
> parens and nested commands are a bit easier to  parse.
>
> echo $(foo bar $(baz blah) and then bleh)
>
> as opposed to
>
> echo `foo bar `baz blah` and then bleh`
>
>
> For me another win is that I generally run shells inside emacs buffers so
> I can make use of the paren-matching feature from within emacs to help out.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Benjie <benjie.godfrey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It looks like you missed placing a single quote after the 'echo
>> `hostname` command.  That would prevent awk from interpreting its print
>> command.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Brandon Colbert <
>> colbert.brandon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying figure out what the heck is wrong with awk here.
>>>
>>> for i in $(seq 1 1); do ssh 127.0.0.$i 'echo `hostname`; if [ `free -m |
>>> grep -i swap | awk '{print $3}'` > 1000 ]; then sudo echo reclaim; else
>>> echo hey; fi'; done
>>>
>>> The command works, but I get an error about awk: Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> deblapatl01
>>> awk: cmd. line:1: {print
>>> awk: cmd. line:1:       ^ unexpected newline or end of string
>>> hey
>>>
>>>
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