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		Theriac25 on Dec 2, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Explain Shell Doesn't seem to support backquotes? For example for x in `ls ~/foo`; do echo $x; done doesn't yield anything remotely interesting.

nailer on Dec 2, 2013 [–]

New style subshells aren't supported (yet) either:

   for x in $(ls ~/foo); do echo $x; done

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