| gabriel rosenkoetter on Fri, 20 Sep 2002 15:51:25 -0400 |
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On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 07:16:31AM -0400, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > (I may be using the wrong terms here, but) It was in screen output > section which was meant to provide the person running the script with > some explanation about what was about to happen, etc. When the author > wanted to put stuff therein in quotes, he used two "back accents" ( ` ) > as leading quotes and two single quotes ( ' ) as closing quotes, > presumably because a real double quote ( " ) would have been > misinterpreted by the script. So will backticks (accents, whatever) if the block of text is within double-quotes already. He's just getting lucky because there's nothing between the two backticks, but that's spawning a shell (with no arguments, that immediately dies) every time. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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