remote execution in a different directory

[Charles Curley]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:31:02AM -0600, Gabriel Gunderson wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 09:18 -0600, Stuart Jansen wrote:
> > Stuart Rules of Shell Scripting:
> 
> Was that supposed to be...
> 
> "Stuart's Rules of Shell Scripting"
> 
> Or
> 
> "Stuart Rules at Shell Scripting"
> 
> ?

Yes.

Although perhaps the first should have been: "Stuart\'s Rules of Shell
Scripting".

> 
> 
> > 2) Backticks are evil, use $() instead.
> 
> Why?

Because

* Back ticks are deprecated, and in future may be used for something
  else.

* One can nest $(), but not back ticks.

* In some fonts, back ticks may be confused with ticks, producing
  programming errors, where in most fonts parentheses are not easily
  confused with other characters.

* $() shows up better when one uses Emacs' parentheses matching minor
  mode.

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