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Man page quotation characters

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

I’ve just been looking through a few man pages for a few different commands including grep and ifconfig. I’ve noticed over a few pages, the content uses a strange syntax to notate what i think are quotations (back-tick followed by a single or double quote): `text' Why can’t they use ‘ or ” to open … Read more

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