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Old 02-11-2009
Command substition with KSH
$var=`command <arg> <arg>`

I thought there was another method

$var=$(command <arg> <arg>)

I thought I read saw the second example. It doesnt work
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Old 02-11-2009
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Originally Posted by popeye
$var=`command <arg> <arg>`

I thought there was another method

$var=$(command <arg> <arg>)

I thought I read saw the second example. It doesnt work

What does "doesn't work" mean? What does happen?

Both versions work in all flavours of ksh.

(I assume that the dollar signs at the beginning of your examples are your prompt, and not part of the command.)
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Old 02-12-2009
Perhaps you are thinking about ${ command;} command substitution which was added to ksh93 circa mid-2007. It behaves like $(command) except that command is executed in the current shell environment.
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