Stupid bash scripting question

[John Abreau]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Cole Tuininga wrote:

> It seems that either will do the job, I'm just wondering (for the
> purpose of my own "betterment" and improved knowledge of shell scripting
> *grin*) about advantages of either approach.  The only one I've come
> with so far is that Solution 2 requires a separate process to run.

So does the first one; the `..` spawns another shell, and I believe 
the eval spawns yet another shell. 

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