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-rw-r--r--doc/coreutils.texi8
-rw-r--r--src/mv.c2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 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
diff --git a/src/mv.c b/src/mv.c
index b1d4e79ff..ee2f5a10c 100644
--- a/src/mv.c
+++ b/src/mv.c
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ do_move (const char *source, const char *dest, const struct cp_options *x)
parent. It doesn't make sense to move a directory into itself, and
besides in some situations doing so would give highly nonintuitive
results. Run this 'mkdir b; touch a c; mv * b' in an empty
- directory. Here's the result of running echo `find b -print`:
+ directory. Here's the result of running echo $(find b -print):
b b/a b/b b/b/a b/c. Notice that only file 'a' was copied
into b/b. Handle this by giving a diagnostic, removing the
copied-into-self directory, DEST ('b/b' in the example),