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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Huh, it's the same as $(( )) - arithmetic expansion.
I think it's deprecated and not in the bash manual, but it still seems to work.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It is? Weird. I know about deprecated backticks, but this... I guess it's so deprecated that very few people know about this. Now a bit more.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

As an old Perl jockey, you can pry my backticks out of my cold, dead hands.

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