[CALUG] offsite for file access

[Bryan J Smith]

Backticks are required in some cases though, so they do have their purpose.

- bjs

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 12:07 PM Jim Cottrell <jecottrell3 at comcast.net>
wrote:

> STOP using Backticks!
>
> GOOD: var=$(command args...)
>
> BAD: var=`command args...`
>
> At the Very Least, you won't have to explain what kind of Quotes you are
> using.
>
> JIM
>
> On 8/8/19 1:08 PM, Howard Bampton wrote:
> > 1) Save message to a scratch file
> > 2) egrep '(http:|https:)' /path/to/scratchfile > /path/to/newfile
> > 3) wget `cat /path/to/newfile`
> >
> > The single quote marks in step 3 are back tics (`), not normal single
> > quotes (') [aka not the quote on the same key as the double quote key]
>
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