OT: The Straight Dope

[Nick Vargish]

Charles Richmond <richchas at comcast.net> writes:

> Hey, the C-shell in UNIX uses backquote also... I do *not*
> know about bash, ksh, or sh.

I believe the Bourne shell is where the backticks as "execute string
and replace with output" began. BTW, you should learn a Bourne shell
(I like zsh, but bash is okay, ksh and sh are a little basic for
interactive use) -- very few system scripts are written in C-shell. In
fact, C-shell programming generally seems to be deprecated in most
environments.

Nick

-- 
#  sigmask  ||  0.2  ||  20030107  ||  public domain  ||  feed this to a python
print reduce(lambda x,y:x+chr(ord(y)-1),' Ojdl!Wbshjti!=obwAcboefstobudi/psh?')