[Ferm] String expansion in backticks

[Max Kellermann]

On 2011/03/14 11:30, Marc Haber <mh+ferm at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> which unfortunately doesn't work since there is no string expansion
> done inside backticks. I am aware that introducing string expansion
> there would open a can of worms regarding to quoting requirements if
> one wants a literal $ to be passed to the command (as in the backtick
> example in the manpages which calls awk '{print $2}'), so I won't ask
> for string expansion to be implemented, but ...
> 
>  ... is there a different way to do things?

No, not currently.  If you have an idea how to do it safely with
backwards compatibility, say so.