Problem when using variable assignment, backticks in shell script

[mwoehlke]

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...

(How come PCYMTNILOAUD is not on the OLOCA yet? ;-))

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