Hallo, 

Sorry if this bores you, but I have never used sed before and after
reading this discussion I checked the man page for sed.

What I would like to know is the following:

On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Steve Mayer wrote:

>   Try grep "`date \"+ %a %b %d\" | sed 's/ //'`" arch.log
              ^                                 ^
> dave oswald wrote:

> > grep echo  \"`date "+ %a %b %d" | sed 's/ //'`\" arch.log
                 ^                               ^  
What is the meaning of the ` before date and after //'?
What was wrong with dave oswald's effort? 

Why wouldn't 

grep \"`date "+ %a %b %d" | sed 's/ //'`\" arch.log

work?

Johann
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