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From: Darren Salt on 24 Sep 2009 13:33
I demand that Sydney may or may not have written...

> "Aragorn" <aragorn(a)chatfactory.invalid> a écrit dans le message de news:
> sw5um.143238$gY4.72500(a)newsfe08.ams2...
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>> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/3rdparty/ndiswrapper
>> *Note:* Those "quotes" in the above path are not apostrophes but rather
>> what you would in French call an "accent grave". The shell will
>> substitute the command between these two accent graves by its output.
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> Here is a copy of the terminal

> Cohen(a)compaq1391 ~]$ /lib/modules/'uname -r'/kernel/3rdparty/ndiswrapper

"`", not "'", as you've already been told :-)

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From: Marcel Bruinsma on 24 Sep 2009 17:08
Am Donnerstag 24 September 2009 16:56, Aragorn a écrit :

> On Wednesday 23 September 2009 09:26, someone identifying as *Sydney*
> wrote in /comp.os.linux.setup:/
>
>> Cohen(a)compaq1391 ~]$ /lib/modules/'uname -r'/kernel/3rdparty/ndiswrapper
>
> Yes, you did something wrong, because you did not use an
> "accent grave" (`) but an apostrophe (') instead.

Unfortunately, backticks (accents graves) look an awful lot like
apostrophes in some typefaces. Another excellent reason to use
the "$(...)" notation instead :

ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/3rdparty/ndiswrapper

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