On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 08:39:46PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Antti J. Huhtala <ahuhtal4 at welho.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Hi Antti, > > d) Two attempts of 'rpmbuild' perhaps failed because I inadvertently > > used single quotes or apostrophes around 'uname -m' instead of "`"s > > (accent grave?). > > They are "back ticks" :-) This is one of those things that might be > regarded as Unix/Linux basics (?). It feeds the output of the command > inside the ticks to the shell. In your case, `uname -m` produces i686 > which then will be used as the parameter for the --target= option. This confuses many newcomers (and old timers with bad vision if they're not paying attention.) Is there any merit to substituting that with $(). (To the OP, original poster, both the back ticks, to the left of the numeral 1 on a QWERTY keyboard and putting something inside $(), e.g., $(uname -m) mean to execute a command. I write many pages for the beginner. As that was a common error when people would read my pages, I then began making a point of explaining what they were. Finally, I decided that simply using $() was easier than adding a sentence or two specifying that those were backticks. :) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Buffy: I gotta stop him before he unleashes unholy havoc and it's just another Tuesday night in Sunnydale.