The rename command…

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Aug 28 17:29:15 UTC 2008


Rashkae wrote:

> Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

>> Does ` have a special meaning? I tried to replace it with something else,
>> such as ', but got errors. It looks unnecessary to have this construction
>> ( <blah blah> "`<more blah blah>`" <even more stuff here> - it looks like
>> either " or ` can be omitted, but it can't; I've tried…)
>> 
> 
> ` very much has a special meaning, completely different from '
> 
> ` ` means to susbstitute what's inside of the quotes with the output the
> commands contained within.

Sometimes, you'll find that you need to exchange `` with $().  The $()
syntax is a little more flexible.
-- 
derek





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