[Patch] Bashism in startkde

[Sune Vuorela]

On 2009-06-01, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
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> Armin Berres wrote:
>>|-KDE_SESSION_UID=3D$UID
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> Isn't $() another extension? Shouldn't we use `` instead?

It depends on what you call "extension".
$() is posix shell, but afaik not supported by the original Bourne
Shell. No one uses Bourne Shell today though.

I just tested:

FOO=$(id -u)
echo $FOO

and I get the expected output in
bash
dash 
posh  
pdksh
ksh93
mksh
zsh

(And then I ran out of shells)

/Sune