punctuation marks ?

hi ! anyway, how does a ` differ from a ' anyway ? ... and what are they called ? sib - A world of Information. The journey begins here. At Home. Internet Cebu's web based mail. http://www.i-mailbox.net

Re: punctuation marks ?

Sibuyas Bombay wrote: anyway, how does a ` differ from a ' anyway ? ... and what are they call ed For full details look at the manpage for bash on quoting; for a friendlier approach, look at the Debian Tutorial at www.debian.org. Very briefly: ' is called single quote, ` is called

Re: punctuation marks ?

hi Ship's Log, Lt. Sibuyas Bombay, Stardate 051298.1340: hi ! anyway, how does a ` differ from a ' anyway ? ... and what are they called ? AFAIK apostroph ` (single) quotation mark ' the ' is used to enclose a string much like except that interpretation by the shell is forbitten (

Re: punctuation marks ?

Hello, anyway, how does a ` differ from a ' anyway ? Depends on where you use them :-) The typical usage is: string with variable substitutions ' literal string (suppress substitutions) ` execute the command and use the result So: 'pwd' gives you those three characters, while