• subtext@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I believe the actual behavior here would be printing “dong” as the shell interpreter is greedy in its evaluation of variables.

    • vrighter
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      1 year ago

      the actual behavior here is to echo the literal string “$foobar”, because the $ sign is escaped. so no variable expansion will take place at all.

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          1 year ago

          ah, so it’s up to the client. I’m using jerboa, in this case

        • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
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          1 year ago

          You should use markdown’s inline code (single `backtick`) and

          block code
          (triple backtick)
          

          tags. They are consistent across most markdown renderers (except Reddit’s, which uses four-space indentations (like, who the fuck thought that was a good idea?))