"cygpath -u" inside backticks differs

J. David Boyd jdavidboyd@adboyd.com
Wed Jun 4 14:32:00 GMT 2014


Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> writes:

>
> see why `` is obsolete, and you should be using $()?  Among other
> reasons, \ inside `` has weird rules.
>

Wow, when did this happen?  I've been using `` for years, and never heard of
$().  What version did this change?

I think I need to go back and re-read some documentation!

Dave


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