[HTTPS-Everywhere] More improvements to makexpi.sh

[Eitan Adler]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Colonel Graff
<graffatcolmingov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).

Correct. Not all shell languages support the $() format. Older bourne
shells and tcsh for example.
However it is considered valid POSIX syntax (section 2.6.3 of IEEE Std
1003.1-2004) and would (hopefully) not hurt portability.



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Eitan Adler