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Why do Unix man pages use double backticks in place of double quotes?
I've noticed that man pages and other documents formatted by Unix utilities often use double backticks `` followed by double single quotes '' to wrap quoted phrases instead of the double quote ...
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Is there a archive of old man pages? specifically for the features available for grep in early 'ed'
This is just a bit of history rummaging... I'd like to know how different today's grep is to the original implementation, introduced by Ken Thompson in ed. which evolved to ex, which then became vi...
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