Problem when using variable assignment, backticks in shell script

[mwoehlke]

mwoehlke wrote:
> CARTER Alan wrote:
>>> In any case, it's pretty weird that bash randomly fails to spawn child
>> processes!  It wreaks havoc on a number of my scripts.
>>
>> Thought: Silent failure to spawn used to happen on some UNIX boxen when
>> the process table was full (or one slot remained and user != root).
>> Might something like this be causing your problem?
>>
>> (I'm not going to stress my work Windows box this way to attempt to
>> reproduce, it's too unstable already.)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Alan Carter
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> Hmm... 9 lines of content, 10 of disclaimer... *sip!*
> Eew, and the disclaimer isn't even line-wrapped...
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> (How come PCYMTNILOAUD is not on the OLOCA yet? ;-))

Ack! I meant to TITTTL this; sorry! (Hit 'send' too fast and forgot to 
change the To:...)

Ah, well, but now the poster knows we don't care for LOAUD's. :-)

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