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by oblio 2110 days ago
I've just executed:

echo "$(ls)"

in my zsh, so I'm not sure what to say, to be honest.

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Closer to:

echo "Username is ${USER}"

As I recall (and Wikipedia seems to confirm), parameter substitutions were in the original bourne shell in 1979, so... Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on there.