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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!charnel!sifon!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!mouse
  2. From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
  4. Subject: Re: sh/csh interpretation of backquotes
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec21.165116.16840@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
  6. Date: 21 Dec 92 16:51:16 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec17.174208.28328@mfltd.co.uk>
  8. Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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  11. In article <1992Dec17.174208.28328@mfltd.co.uk>, sml@mfltd.co.uk (Shaun Lowry) writes:
  12.  
  13. > Can anyone tell me why 
  14. > $ echo `tput bold`
  15. > works in sh and ksh, but not in csh?
  16.  
  17. Different quoting conventions, probably.  It would really help a lot if
  18. you could tell us what "tput bold" produces, or at *least* what
  19. terminal type you're using.
  20.  
  21.                     der Mouse
  22.  
  23.                 mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
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