Apostrophe woes

[Jan Schipmolder]

In Message-ID: <31414 at hydra.gatech.EDU> gt5870c at prism.gatech.EDU 
writes

> I am having difficulty using the accent grave key. I want to use it to
> surround the UNIX date command in an echo statement, there by printing
> the date instead of the word date. But the system keeps [ ... ]

I don't know why your system is giving you problems. But, on my
system, the following two commands have the same identical effect:

echo `date`
date

Since they both have the same effect, why insist on using one and not the
other?
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