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[PATCH] doc: Use the shell dollar substitution.

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
To: guix-patches <at> gnu.org
Cc: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Use the shell dollar substitution.
Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 00:31:24 +0200

Follow up of beaf701d65e9f94d0539e705d6f58a65313c5655.

* doc/guix.texi: Replace the shell backquote deprecated substitution by the
dollar one.
---
 doc/guix.texi | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index e1fb50a634..c162d3a79d 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -3451,7 +3451,7 @@ The typical use case is to define these environment variables in the
 shell:
 
 @example
-$ eval `guix package --search-paths`
+$ eval $(guix package --search-paths)
 @end example
 
 @var{kind} may be one of @code{exact}, @code{prefix}, or @code{suffix},

base-commit: ebb43029506d994bee0c2b890881fd61a0b0c202
-- 
2.35.1

Message #8 received at 55438 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 55438 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55438: [PATCH] doc: Use the shell dollar substitution.
Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 00:41:03 -0400

Hi Simon!

zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Follow up of beaf701d65e9f94d0539e705d6f58a65313c5655.
>
> * doc/guix.texi: Replace the shell backquote deprecated substitution by the
> dollar one.

I'm nitpicking, but per "info bash", I'd reword the commit summary as
"Use new-style command substitution".  And "Replace the shell old-style
command substitution with the new-style one."

With this, I'd be happy to push :-)

Thanks!

Maxim

Message #13 received at 55438-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 55438-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [bug#55438] [PATCH] doc: Use the shell dollar substitution.
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2022 13:40:11 +0200

Le Wed, 18 May 2022 00:41:03 -0400,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi Simon!
> 
> zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Follow up of beaf701d65e9f94d0539e705d6f58a65313c5655.
> >
> > * doc/guix.texi: Replace the shell backquote deprecated
> > substitution by the dollar one.  
> 
> I'm nitpicking, but per "info bash", I'd reword the commit summary as
> "Use new-style command substitution".  And "Replace the shell
> old-style command substitution with the new-style one."
> 
> With this, I'd be happy to push :-)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Maxim
> 
> 
> 

I talked with Simon who agreed with the change, so pushed to master as
e584e58e925ca9423b46f636f08ad87c8d12a229, thanks!

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