Grave accent (`) symbol (轉貼)

 When I type Grave accent(`) symbol in terminal, It is like down below.

>
>
>

What does Grave accent(`) symbol do?

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asked Mar 6 '17 at 6:31

alexparkjw

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The '>' is displayed because the shell 'waits' for the closing quote. From the man page:

Command Substitution
       Command substitution allows the output of a command to replace the com-
       mand name.  There are two forms:
          $(command)
   or
          `command`