Odd command behaviour

[clubex]

Does anyone know why

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~/cleanup$ for i in 'cat replace.txt' ; do apt-get download $i/sid; done


produces

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E: Unable to locate package cat
E: Unable to locate package replace.txt
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'replace.txt'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'replace.txt'

on my en_gb machine?

Yet a copy paste from this site does what it's supposed to do.
EDIT: This happens both in bash and tty.

[jure]

is there a space between  'cat replace.txt' and ";"  ?

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~/cleanup$ for i in 'cat replace.txt' ; do apt-get download $i/sid; done


[horo]

try

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for i in $(cat replace.txt) ...
instead of the wrong backticks '...'
Ciao, Martin

[clubex]

Thanks guys
Jure:
Shouldn't make any difference IMO.

horo:
Thast worked OK! But I dont't seee why, unless there is a character set or language  problem on my machine. (I did read somewhere about some difference between the en_Us and en_GB language packs.)

[towo]

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for i in 'cat foo'
wrong!

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for in in `cat foo`
right


You see the difference?


That's why

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for i in $(cat foo)
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