No difference. Not only is the output of the backticked command not
getting into the string, the command itself is never being run. I can
replace the command with `touch file.txt` and that file is never
created.

On 19 May, 01:26, Lee Hambley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Try,
> task :foo, :hosts => "my.host.com" do
>  run "echo date is `cat /bin/date` so there"
> end
>
> 2009/5/19 Scott Johnson <[email protected]>
>
>
>
> > I have a run command that uses shell backticks, yet the command in the
> > backticks never runs and I get an empty string instead of the output
> > of the command.
>
> > My Capfile:
>
> > task :foo, :hosts => "my.host.com" do
> >  run "echo date is `/bin/date` so there"
> > end
>
> > Output from running 'cap foo':
> >  * executing 'foo'
> >  * executing "echo date is `/bin/date` so there"
> >    servers: ["my.host.com"]
> >    [my.host.com] executing command
> >  ** [out :: my.host.com] date is  so there
> >    command finished
>
> > Bizarre.
>
> > I'm running cap 2.5.5 on Fedora Core release 6 with Ruby 1.8.7. The
> > local and remote machine are the same (ie, I'm launching cap from
> > my.host.com).
>
> > If I edit line 212 of lib/capistrano/command.rb (that escapes certain
> > special characters in the command) and remove the backtick from the
> > gsub args, it works. But I somehow doubt this is the proper solution,
> > since I seem to be the only one having this problem.
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