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When referring to commands in tutorials, man pages, and articles I see authors use the backtick and single quote in this way:

`./configure'
`make'

I believe I have seen gcc denote points of failure during compilation with that sequence. Where does it come from and why do many people use it as a convention for commands to issue?

jonschipp
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  • See also the similar [Where does this convention for quotation marks (`` …'') come from? [closed\]](http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/85303/where-does-this-convention-for-quotation-marks-come-from). – manatwork Aug 21 '13 at 15:29
  • see [Why do Unix man pages use double backticks in place of double quotes?](http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/73989/why-do-unix-man-pages-use-double-backticks-in-place-of-double-quotes/73996) – Uwe Aug 21 '13 at 15:31

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