From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 7 10:31:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tantalum.btinternet.com (tantalum.btinternet.com [194.73.73.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDBC337C040 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 10:31:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [213.1.162.185] (helo=parish.my.domain) by tantalum.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12dcTF-0003Bx-00; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 18:23:01 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA00917; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 18:31:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 18:31:10 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: gh Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backticks, quotes, and doublequotes--- Message-ID: <20000407183110.B238@parish> References: <004d01bfa046$aab66be0$fc69a0d0@linkfast.net.linkfast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <004d01bfa046$aab66be0$fc69a0d0@linkfast.net.linkfast.net>; from grasshacker@linkfast.net on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 11:06:24PM -0500 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 11:06:24PM -0500, gh wrote: > Can someone explain to me why some people use backticks and double backticks > in, say, e-mail instead of using single quotes and double quotes? > Well, I for one use them to show text that should be typed verbatim (at the command prompt), for instance ``ls -l | grep foobar''. Don't ask me the origins of it, I use it because that's what it appeared to be for so I just copied everyone else. Bah, bah :) > Thanks. > > Issue has been intriguing, but has not led anywhere. > > Dan > gh > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Beam me up Scottie, there's no intelligent life down here ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message