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-A Ruby gem for performing shell word expansion using [wordexp][]. It's like [Shellwords][] turned up to 11. Not only does it split taking quotes into account, but it also expands environment variables and tildes, and runs subcommands in \``backticks`\` or `$(dollar parentheses)`.
+A Ruby gem for performing shell word expansion using [wordexp][]. It's like [Shellwords][] turned up to 11. Not only does it split taking quotes into account, but it also expands environment variables and tildes, and runs subcommands in `` `backticks` `` or `$(dollar parentheses)`.
 
 [wordexp]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/wordexp.3.html
 [Shellwords]: https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-3.1.0/libdoc/shellwords/rdoc/Shellwords.html