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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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This is a great one. I forget that apt needs to be told to update (because, conversely, dnf needs to be told when NOT to check for updates, with ``--cacheonly``, and slackpkg rarely needs an update unless I see a new entry in the Changelog) so this is a great one, thanks!
Great points, thanks. I'm surprised at myself for not double-quoting my variables!
I'm not necessarily sold on the idea of using $() instead of back ticks yet. I also use tcsh, and while Bash aliases do me no good in that shell, the habit of using back ticks is still useful for tcsh (because it still interprets $() as trying to call a variable) so I'll probably continue to default to back ticks for my own internal consistency.