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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2012-03-26 07:38:27 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2012-03-26 07:38:37 +0200
commita4d14d3533099c5c8c47be491fa8fc62ecdc40bd (patch)
tree221d1927fb9d3f7798b943d6bdac2dd3cc26047a /doc
parent488172c499dd8edf84f44cbab3de5d6f75dd722e (diff)
downloadcoreutils-a4d14d3533099c5c8c47be491fa8fc62ecdc40bd.tar.xz
doc: use $(...), not `...` in documentation and comments
* doc/coreutils.texi (dircolors invocation, Examples of expr): (shred invocation, seq invocation): Use $(...), not `...`. * src/mv.c (do_move): Likewise, in a comment.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 392024986..510abb903 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -7474,7 +7474,7 @@ terminal for color output from @command{ls} (and @command{dir}, etc.).
Typical usage:
@example
-eval "`dircolors [@var{option}]@dots{} [@var{file}]`"
+eval "$(dircolors [@var{option}]@dots{} [@var{file}])"
@end example
If @var{file} is specified, @command{dircolors} reads it to determine which
@@ -9131,7 +9131,7 @@ The intended use of this is to shred a removed temporary file.
For example:
@example
-i=`mktemp`
+i=$(mktemp)
exec 3<>"$i"
rm -- "$i"
echo "Hello, world" >&3
@@ -12222,7 +12222,7 @@ Here are a few examples, including quoting for shell metacharacters.
To add 1 to the shell variable @code{foo}, in Bourne-compatible shells:
@example
-foo=`expr $foo + 1`
+foo=$(expr $foo + 1)
@end example
To print the non-directory part of the file name stored in
@@ -16308,7 +16308,7 @@ If you want hexadecimal integer output, you can use @command{printf}
to perform the conversion:
@example
-$ printf '%x\n' `seq 1048575 1024 1050623`
+$ printf '%x\n' $(seq 1048575 1024 1050623)
fffff
1003ff
1007ff