On 2024-05-05 13:45, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> Useful and sensible, but not "necessary" by any means.  One of the
Useful and sensible are good enough for me.

> reasons the legacy `...` form is discouraged is that in some shells
> it requires nested double quotes to be backslash-quoted.
>
> 	% ksh -c 'echo "`echo \"a   b   c\"`"'
That's sadistic.  How you guys keep the parser sane is beyond my imagining.