• Morphit
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      01 year 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
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        01 year 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.

        • comador
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          1 year ago

          Daily Linux user since Slackware 95, news to me too lol

          • fmstrat
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            01 year ago

            Same camp, and know bash very, very, well. Crazy how you can always learn.