Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Of course they do. They are entirely different things. The first one
is
for quoting strings which might contain Shell metacharacters. The second
is to execute a command and insert its output as the value of the
string, e.g.
ls -l `find ~/.kde`
This is equivalent to:
ls -l $(find ~/.kde)
but the latter is a more recent form (it has the advantage of being
nestable, which the older form isn't).
Thank you. That explains it well.
I will read up a bit, too.