• Morphit @feddit.uk
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    7 months ago

    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.

    • Andrew@mander.xyz
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      7 months ago

      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.