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From: schip@sgi400.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Jan Schipmolder)
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Subject: Re: Apostrophe woes
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Date: 15 Jun 91 23:40:25 GMT
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In Message-ID: <31414@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt5870c@prism.gatech.EDU 
writes

> I am having difficulty using the accent grave key. I want to use it to
> surround the UNIX date command in an echo statement, there by printing
> the date instead of the word date. But the system keeps [ ... ]

I don't know why your system is giving you problems. But, on my
system, the following two commands have the same identical effect:

echo `date`
date

Since they both have the same effect, why insist on using one and not the
other?
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jan b. schipmolder
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