Eric Blake wrote:
> The portability bug I am referring to is the use of double-quoted
> back-ticks containing a double quote. Some (buggy) shells require you to
> use \" instead of " inside backticks if the overall backtick expression is
> double-quoted.
Hence this statement in Posix:
Either of the following cases produces undefined results:
* A single-quoted or double-quoted string that begins, but does not
end, within the "`...`" sequence
* A "`...`" sequence that begins, but does not end, within the same
double-quoted string
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