[u-u] Sams book

[Bill Duncan]

Do you still use "ed" Bruce, miss all the vi-vs.emacs wars?  ;)

replace all those shebangs with ":".

J

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 05:03:12PM -0500, bdb at 0123456789-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw.xyz wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2016, Jim Mercer wrote:
> |On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 03:41:13PM -0500, Hello Kittyhawk wrote:
> ||On Fri, 15 Jan 2016, Jim Mercer wrote:
> |||On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 03:22:35PM -0500, Hello Kittyhawk wrote:
> |||
> ||||    Also for those reasons the suggestion to use exepedients like
> ||||    "make -j `getconf ...` is functional only in a subset of
> ||||    linux distribtuions
> |||
> |||i'm a recent, and fairly happy, convert to using "$(cmd)" instead of `cmd`.
> ||
> ||      That's not present in a number of /bin/sh implementations
> ||      so if real portability is your goal, it should be avoided
> |
> |i used to think this as well, but i have not run into a non-compliant
> |/bin/sh  in some time.
> 
>         This answer is commposed on just such a system -
> 
>         > echo $( echo hi )
>         syntax error: `(' unexpected
> 
>         However pdksh does do what's needed :)
> 
> 
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