Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 15:00:39 -0400 From: Paul Chvostek <paul@it.ca> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backticks, quotes, and doublequotes--- Message-ID: <20000409150039.B36746@flarn.it.ca> In-Reply-To: <20000407183110.B238@parish>; from Mark Ovens on Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 06:31:10PM %2B0100 References: <004d01bfa046$aab66be0$fc69a0d0@linkfast.net.linkfast.net> <20000407183110.B238@parish>
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The various quotes are also often shell references. If I want to specify something I said, it would be "something I said". If I wanted to refer to a shell command, it would be `echo $this`, because that's how you'd execute a subshell in a command line. For laughs, try typing: echo `ls -la` Many people seem to use a pair of back ticks and a pair of apostrophes as the left and right sides of double quotes, since ASCII doesn't have these characters itself. You can `man sh` for more details on how single and double quotes work. To get to the specific section of the man page, '/Quoting'. On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 06:31:10PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > > 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 -- Paul Chvostek <paul@it.ca> Operations / Development / Abuse / Whatever vox: +1 416 598 0000 IT Canada http://www.it.ca/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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