remote execution in a different directory

[Charles Curley]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:23:24AM -0600, Byron Clark wrote:
> On 7/28/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> >* One can nest $(), but not back ticks.
> 
> I dislike back ticks as much as the next guy, but this (contrived)
> nested back tick command works in bash:
> 
> echo `ls \`echo \\\`ls | grep elisp\\\`\``

Yep, that works, and the man page for BASH says that's the way to do
it. But it's uglier than a bill from a law office. So I will amend my
statement as follows:

* One can nest both $() and back ticks, but, as the latter requires
  escaping which can get ugly, the former is likely more readable.

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