Timeline for Is the "tick" or "acute accent" character ´ (not `) used for anything in Linux shell?
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| Sep 24, 2019 at 13:23 | history | edited | dr_ | CC BY-SA 4.0 | edited title |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackUnix/status/1058418560601591808 | ||
| Nov 2, 2018 at 14:33 | comment | added | pts | There are many similar-looking characters in Unicode, see cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html for an incomplete list, and see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_(symbol) for some more symbols. Out of all these, only the ASCII characters (', ", `) have special meaning in Unix shells. | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 14:24 | comment | added | pts | A similar-looking character, the apostrophe (', ASCII 39, U+0027) has meaning in many of the Unix shells (e.g. the Bourne shell /bin/sh) and Linux shells (e.g. /bin/bash). It prevents words splitting and all expansions. So ls '$foo [bar]' returns an error unless there is a file named $foo [bar] in the current directory. It's equvalent to ls "\$foo [bar]" and ls \$foo\ \[bar\]. | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 14:02 | comment | added | Captain Man | @dr01 It might be worth putting in the title something like "(not `)" to help with confusion. | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 13:46 | answer | added | zwol | timeline score: 13 | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 10:26 | comment | added | Stéphane Chazelas | fair enough. I've removed the comment. | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 10:24 | vote | accept | dr_ | ||
| Nov 2, 2018 at 10:23 | history | edited | dr_ | CC BY-SA 4.0 | edited title |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 10:20 | comment | added | dr_ | I was unsure of the name, but I thought ´ is called acute accent only when used as a diacritic (and, conversely, ` is called grave accent). When used alone, as the latter is a backtick, it seemed natural for the former to be called a tick or forward tick (please let's not call it reverse backtick). I've modified the title question to include your note. | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 9:58 | answer | added | Stephen Kitt | timeline score: 31 | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 9:51 | history | asked | dr_ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |