How to make a command with brackets in it

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Hi everyone,

this is very simple and frutrating. I just want to make this into a command that I can run:

for x = 4:2:10
    y = [4 5.5 7]
run( `surfaceTransformPoints -translate   '( $x $y 0 )'  file.stl file_temp.stl`)
end
end

It complains about the special charaters ( and '. When I use single quotes on each, the single tick ’ comes out properly in the command, but the brackets produce extra ', which cause the external program to crash.

Any ideas? thanks

2

Did you try quoting with double quotes ""? In any case single quotes seem to prevent variable interpolation in Cmds:

julia> `echo "$x"`
`echo 1`

julia> `echo '$x'`
`echo '$x'`
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Yep, I discovered that shortly after posting this… Thanks!