[HTTPS-Everywhere] More improvements to makexpi.sh

[Colonel Graff]

I think he's concerned with systems without bash. While $() is always
preferred over backticks (which my phone curiously doesn't have) in bash for
the reasons you mentioned, not all shell languages have it (from my possibly
out-dated memory).
On Oct 5, 2011 8:52 PM, "Daniel Kahn Gillmor" <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> Thanks for your cleanup, Alex!
>
> On 10/05/2011 08:06 PM, Alex Xu wrote:
>> Replaced $() with `` for increased portability to other sh's.
>
> out of curiosity, which sh implementations on systems capable of running
> firefox cannot handle $()? I think ruling out $() in favor of `` is a
> step backward due to readability and nesting concerns.
>
> --dkg
>
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