"cygpath -u" inside backticks differs

[Csaba Raduly]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Eric Blake  wrote:
> On 06/04/2014 08:31 AM, J. David Boyd wrote:
>> Wow, when did this happen?  I've been using `` for years, and never heard of
>> $().  What version did this change?
>
> $() has existed in all sh variant shells except Solaris /bin/sh pretty
> much since the 80s; it was standardized in POSIX in the 90s. (On
> Solaris, you have to use /usr/xpg4/bin/sh instead of /bin/sh to get it)

I never understood the need for these fancy new features :)

Csaba
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