{/usr/bin/Solved} Quick question: How do I escape the backtick character?

[MBantz]

Having trouble with a spec where I need a way to escape the backtick character `

I've tried \` but that does not work (and I get the result from the actual command in the way wrong place...doh...)

any help appreciated!

cheers,
MBantz

[wyohman]

Having trouble with a spec where I need a way to escape the backtick character `

I've tried \` but that does not work (and I get the result from the actual command in the way wrong place...doh...)

How about:

'`Text`'

Using single quotes should have the same effect as the escape character with the possibility of less overhead.

Cheers.

[MBantz]

Thanks wyohman, I now just get the first '

The line in the specfile is currently this:


xml ed ...
...
-s "/actions/action[last()]" -t elem -n command -v "xterm %{xtermopt} +hold -e bunzip2 '%f' && xz - -9 %d/'`basename '%f' .bz2'`" \
...
..

and it's the `basename '%f' .bz2'` that evaluates too early (the trick is to insert the command as a menu option for Thunar fm to be able to repackage a bz2 archive to xz format), ie.

bunzip2 '%f' && xz - -9 `basename '%f' .bz2'` (bunzip to the tar file and compress tarfile to xz)

[MBantz]

Solved!

the first idea was the right one - \`

but it is necessary to escape the escape character 

This works: \\\`

Now recompressing archives is a breeze! (this is pkgutil-thunar I'm working on) - xz compression is -very- efficient!!

[Padma]

Ah, you figured it out while I was typing my reply.

[MBantz]

Sorry Padma :-) but a big thank you anyways :-)

EDIT: xz compresses impressively - a 100MB tgz archive compresses to a 65MB xz archive.. just a right-click away :-)