Backtick versus $()

[Jerry]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:02:22 -0800
Rob Farmer <rfarmer at predatorlabs.net> articulated:

> Have you used the default FreeBSD shell (tcsh) recently?
> 
> [rfarmer at sapphire] ~> echo $(date )
> Illegal variable name.

Since I use Bash as my default shell, I never suffer from that problem.
I was wondering if anyone had ever files a PR against that behavior
though?

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Jerry ✌
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