Re: gratuitous use of echo?

["bostonlinuxandunix" <user=37@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:54:31 -0500 
>  "Gordon Marx" <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
>  > Also, going back a couple of posts...where did someone see that 
>  > backticks were deprecated? I've googled around a little and have found 
>  > literally zero authoritative sources. 
> 
>  So, let me back 
>  of from my use of deprecated, because both SH, BASH, and KSH the 
>  backquote or grave accent is retained for backward compatibility. 
>