Re: new option?

[David Champion]

On 2000.06.08, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
        "Lars Hecking" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>  In principle, yes, but it may even work without. Nevertheless,
>  echo -n is not portable.

Unquoted backquotes turn all whitespace into plain spaces:
        `ls a b c`                      => a b c
Quoted backquotes do not:
        "`ls a b c`"                    => a
b
c

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