Backtick versus $()

[Thorsten Glaser]

Rob Farmer dixit:

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

That’s a FreeBSD® specific issue though. Other operating systems
did the sensible thing ages ago ☺

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

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