On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 01:59:25PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > duff wrote: > > What does this "`" character do in the command line? > > Command Substitution. And I was a little surprised to see that when I > looked for that character in the man page that it did not appear > anywhere within it in the Debian formatting of the manual. It appears > that there is a formatting issue surrounding the output of that > character and this may have prevented you from finding that character > by a search of the documentation.
The ` character does format correctly on debian for some locales. I get good output with LANG=C man bash The problem comes from formatting of ` to an abstract 'left quote' value. That can be avoided by quoting it in the manual source as \`. That is an understandable error. Even "man groff" gets that wrong. -- Mike Stroyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
