• 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.