Re: Backtick does not work

[Rolf Campbell <Endlisnis at mailc dot net>]

That's not a bash script, that's an 'sh' script.  Which is ash on 
cygwin.  Maybe ash doesn't support back-tick?  If you change your 
/bin/sh to /bin/bash it should work.

Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED) wrote:
> 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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