query: Where does backtick and single quote come from when denoting commands e.g. `prog'?
positive_passages.docid: 17979
positive_passages.text: Why do Unix man pages use double backticks in place of double quotes?
negative_passages.docid: 114306
negative_passages.text: Backslash commands in strings?
negative_passages.docid: 56914
negative_passages.text: Does %* in batch file mean all command line arguments?
negative_passages.docid: 11046
negative_passages.text: Bash semicolon being equal to newline is not exactly true?
negative_passages.docid: 79333
negative_passages.text: What does ' (single quote) do in the terminal?
negative_passages.docid: 33525
negative_passages.text: How can the backtick character ` be included in code?
negative_passages.docid: 23662
negative_passages.text: How do I find out command line arguments of a running program?
negative_passages.docid: 7229
negative_passages.text: When to use ' (or quote) in Lisp?
negative_passages.docid: 44221
negative_passages.text: Why do I sometimes get repeatedly prompted with ">" in the terminal?
negative_passages.docid: 35545
negative_passages.text: How to properly escape exclamation points in bash?
negative_passages.docid: 120043
negative_passages.text: What is the proper use of \@ (i.e., backslash-at)?
negative_passages.docid: 25858
negative_passages.text: Passing arguments with spaces and quotes to a script (without quoting everything)
negative_passages.docid: 116800
negative_passages.text: Which shells don't support dollar-parenthesis expansion, and demand backticks?
negative_passages.docid: 149251
negative_passages.text: Quoting / escaping / expansion issue in "command in a variable"
negative_passages.docid: 49396
negative_passages.text: Why can't Python's raw string literals end with a single backslash?
negative_passages.docid: 127176
negative_passages.text: What's the best way to parse command line arguments?
negative_passages.docid: 51442
negative_passages.text: Why does bash variable expansion retain quotes?