Backtick does not work

Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED) Girish.Menon@med.ge.com
Tue Aug 12 20:22:00 GMT 2003


>From the bash shell the ` (backtick or command execution) work. But when
I spawn a process and execute a shell script which contains the back
ticks, the process just chokes.

For example, a simple shell script like
	#!/bin/sh
	..
	..
	myenv=`/bin/env | grep CYGWIN`
	..
	..

I am able to execute this script properly from the bash shell (as any
user on the system). I am not getting any error at all from the
execution of the script. It just quits. I checked the error code too. It
is 0.
But this same script when executed via a spawned process does not work.

Any help?

Girish



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