[PLUG] looping over file names in numeric order in bash?

[Paul Heinlein]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Galen Seitz wrote:

> One more question.   Why $(...) rather than `...` ?

See 'Command Substitution' section in a recent bash(1) man page. I 
think $(command) is the POSIX recommendation, though the "Shell 
Command Language" documents at opengroup.org list both as acceptable.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_06_03
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/chap2.html#tag_001_006_003

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