Matthew Woehlke wrote: > How should bash interpret escapes in constructs like "`...`"?
The quoting rules for backticks are complex enough that the entire construct has long been replaced with a completely different one. I strongly suggest that instead of struggling to get the backtick syntax quoted satisfactorily that you use $(...) instead. The rules there are much more reasonable. > $ echo "`echo "you don't say"`" > you don't say echo "$(echo "you don't say")" > Is this how it is supposed to work? Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do this. Doctor: Then don't do that. Switch to using $(...) and you will be much less troubled by these types of problems. Bob
