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- From: injc@helios.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Joerg Czeranski)
- Subject: Re: sh/csh interpretation of backquotes
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.211351.17682@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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- Shaun Lowry (sml@mfltd.co.uk) wrote:
- :
- : Can anyone tell me why
- :
- : $ echo `tput bold`
- :
- : works in sh and ksh, but not in csh?
-
- Maybe csh gets confused, because it tries to break the output of
- `tput' into words. You may try:
- % echo "`tput bold`"
-
- I have tried this with both sh/csh and it gives the desired result
- (on SunOS 4.1.3).
-
- Joerg
-
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