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Date:      Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:36:37 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Backtick versus $()
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Rob Farmer dixit:

>(New) people will still copy and paste commands into an interactive
>tcsh

That=E2=80=99s a FreeBSD=C2=AE specific issue though. Other operating syste=
ms
did the sensible thing ages ago =E2=98=BA

Even then, I tend to disagree here. There=E2=80=99s the common use of
=E2=80=98% =E2=80=99 and =E2=80=98$ =E2=80=99 (and =E2=80=98# =E2=80=99 but=
 we use sudo(8) these days) as PS1
in examples to distinguish between these two.

bye,
//mirabilos
--=20
13:47=E2=8E=9C<tobiasu> if i were omnipotent, i would divide by zero
                all day long ;)
(thinking about http://lobacevski.tumblr.com/post/3260866481 by waga)



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