Re^2: Backtics execution with multiple lines

That's curious, becouse I can do command line splitting with "\" in my shell.
And here backticks are not working:

$ cat backticks.pl                              
#!/usr/bin/perl
`ls \
-l *.pl`;
$ perl backticks.pl                             
sh: line 1: -l: command not found
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Re^3: Backtics execution with multiple lines by kennethk (Abbot) on Feb 04, 2009 at 18:17 UTC
Backticks interpolate, so you have to escape your `\` character: thus `\\`. String interpolation.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Backtics execution with multiple lines by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 04, 2009 at 18:19 UTC
You're not passing a slash to the shell. Backticks are like `""`. If you want the resulting string to contain a slash, you need to escape it. `$ perl -le'print "foo bar"' foo bar $ perl -le'print "foo\ bar"' foo bar $ perl -le'print "foo\\ bar"' foo\ bar` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]