On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 01:59:43PM -0500, David Champion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
...depending on the shell. Moreover, quoted backspaces in my
implementation of sh and bash put each item from ls on a separate line,
even if they weren't before. However, quotes don't have the same
effect is csh.
But this is a mutt mailing list, not a shell programming one... :)
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