<div dir="ltr">Short of legacy Bourne-shell execution, what are the cases?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 9:35 AM Bryan J Smith <<a href="mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org">b.j.smith@ieee.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Backticks are required in some cases though, so they do have their purpose.<div><br></div><div>- bjs</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 12:07 PM Jim Cottrell <<a href="mailto:jecottrell3@comcast.net" target="_blank">jecottrell3@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">STOP using Backticks!<br>
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GOOD: var=$(command args...)<br>
<br>
BAD: var=`command args...`<br>
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At the Very Least, you won't have to explain what kind of Quotes you are <br>
using.<br>
<br>
JIM<br>
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On 8/8/19 1:08 PM, Howard Bampton wrote:<br>
> 1) Save message to a scratch file<br>
> 2) egrep '(http:|https:)' /path/to/scratchfile > /path/to/newfile<br>
> 3) wget `cat /path/to/newfile`<br>
><br>
> The single quote marks in step 3 are back tics (`), not normal single <br>
> quotes (') [aka not the quote on the same key as the double quote key]<br>
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