# How to use \* with backticks

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**Created:** [June 14, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-use-with-backticks/11682 "2018-06-14T20:09:47Z")\
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It’s really not recommended to use `run(`sh -c ....`)` because it opens you up to all of the quoting problems, security holes, and general confusion of shell interpolation. See: [A small package to run string as shell command - #5 by stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-small-package-to-run-string-as-shell-command/6163/5) and [Quoting in shell commands](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/quoting-in-shell-commands/6781)

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