Show Content Morphit @feddit.uk1·1 year agoHuh, it’s the same as $(( )) - arithmetic expansion. I think it’s deprecated and not in the bash manual, but it still seems to work.
Show ContentAndrew@mander.xyz1·1 year agoIt 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.
Show Contentlobsticle 🦞@lemmy.world1·1 year agoAs an old Perl jockey, you can pry my backticks out of my cold, dead hands.
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.
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.
As an old Perl jockey, you can pry my backticks out of my cold, dead hands.