Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 08/17/05 14:33 CST: > Unfortunately, one can't nest backticks,
I'm not so sure about that. From the Bash man page: "Command substitutions may be nested. To nest when using the backquoted form, escape the inner backquotes with backslashes." -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 14:46:00 up 137 days, 14:19, 3 users, load average: 0.30, 0.23, 0.25 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page