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Re: What does the "`" Characteter Do?
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Mike Stroyan |
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Re: What does the "`" Characteter Do? |
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Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:20:19 -0600 |
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On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 01:59:25PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> duff wrote:
> > What does this "`" character do in the command line?
>
> Command Substitution. And I was a little surprised to see that when I
> looked for that character in the man page that it did not appear
> anywhere within it in the Debian formatting of the manual. It appears
> that there is a formatting issue surrounding the output of that
> character and this may have prevented you from finding that character
> by a search of the documentation.
The ` character does format correctly on debian for some locales.
I get good output with
LANG=C man bash
The problem comes from formatting of ` to an abstract 'left quote'
value. That can be avoided by quoting it in the manual source as \`.
That is an understandable error. Even "man groff" gets that wrong.
--
Mike Stroyan <mike@stroyan.net>