From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 23:46:28 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/10] t5100-mailinfo.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <5679B3E2.7090406@kdbg.org> Johannes Sixt writes: > Am 22.12.2015 um 19:35 schrieb Johannes Sixt: >> Am 22.12.2015 um 16:27 schrieb Elia Pinto: >>> -for mail in `echo 00*` >>> +for mail in $(echo 00*) >> >>> -for mail in `echo rfc2047/00*` >>> +for mail in $(echo rfc2047/00*) >> >> True, these are equvalence transformations. But a better way to get rid >> of the back-quotes is to write these lines as >> >> for mail in echo 00* >> for mail in echo rfc2047/00* > > Ahem... both of these lines without the 'echo', of course! Very true. Let's leave that kind of things as separate clean-ups after these patches settle, as mixing manual and mechanical changes in a single patch makes it harder to review. Thanks.