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Michael Felt
Michael Felt
9:51 AM
how to enter a backtick so that it is visible in the text. I only see it highlighting a word. e.g., for i in cat xyz; do
even here they disappear :p
for i in "backtick" cat xyz "backtick"; do ...
 
 
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terdon
terdon
12:39 PM
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A: How to use backticks at the beginning and the end of inline code blocks?

slmAs a code block I'm assuming you mean something like this? ` blah...code...blah ` Simply indent the code block using 4 spaces. As inlined code block If on the other hand you want them inlined then simply prefix the inline code block with 2 backticks before and after instead. Any single bac...

Although I recommend you never post an answer suggesting for i in `cat file`; do
 
 
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Michael Felt
Michael Felt
6:03 PM
no, I would never do that - cat file | while read i; do is much better - much much easier to format :p
but i had already tried double backquotes, and did not see any backquotes. will try again another time. thx.
 
terdon
terdon
6:37 PM
@MichaelFelt Backquote formatting is a pain here, no question about it.
Those we escaped: 
 `this is inside \`backticks\`, yeah!`
The above will render like this inline: this is inside `backticks`, yeah!
 
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
Hello everyone. More internet weirdness, courtesy of my ISP.
So, it is possible for wget unix.stackexchange.com to hang on the terminal, and work in a browser? Because that's what I'm seeing right now.
Same with lwn.net.
 

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