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Re: Backtick cannot be escaped in double-quoted string

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Backtick cannot be escaped in double-quoted string
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:32:31 +0100
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:40:42 +0400
ZyX <zyx@xxxxx> wrote:
> When I write echo "\`abc'" instead of getting «`abc'» echoed I get prompt 
> «dquote bquote>».

Hmmm... are you sure that's a real backslash and not just something that
looks like it?  Otherwise I can't see what the problem would be.

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