[Gllug] Changing case on filenames

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 09:58:38AM +0000, Rob Andrews wrote:
> [05-Mar-2002 00:47.41 (GMT) / Mike Brodbelt]
>  > > My suspicion tells me that won't work, since $ will be quoted directly due
>  > > to the single quotes.
>  > Your suspicions are unfounded :-). It works, exactly as above, in bash:-
> 
> I've just fallen into the stupidest trap and believed my eyes when I looked
> at a tiny X font in a terminal, in which the quotes are indistinguishable.
> 
> My humble apologies :)

Worst are some printers that do not distinguish between the two sorts of quotes, ie the glyphs
are the same. I get the impression that one of the PostScript fonts does this.

That is part of the reason that I avoid using back quotes in scripts and always use
	$( command ... )
instead. The semantics are slightly improved as well.

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Alain Williams

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