putting something into single quotes in a bash script

[suvayu ali]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Petrus de Calguarium <pgueckel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Joe Zeff wrote:
>
>> You might find what you need at http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't have the time to read a book just to
> find out the meaning of ` and learn that it is not the same as '.
>

Learning to use the shell effectively requires a bit of patience. Let
me make it a little easier for you,

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/quoting.html
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/varsubn.html
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/commandsub.html

HTH

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Suvayu

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