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Date:      Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:15:52 -0500
From:      Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net>
To:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Backtick versus $()
Message-ID:  <20110224161552.573195ed@scorpio>
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:02:22 -0800
Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net> articulated:

> Have you used the default FreeBSD shell (tcsh) recently?
> 
> [rfarmer@sapphire] ~> echo $(date )
> Illegal variable name.

Since I use Bash as my default shell, I never suffer from that problem.
I was wondering if anyone had ever files a PR against that behavior
though?

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Jerry ✌
FreeBSD.user@seibercom.net

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