Why doesn't this work ?

[Frank Wales]

In article <4900 at ptsfa.PacBell.COM> dmt at PacBell.COM (Dave Turner) writes:
>jon at fdmetd.uucp (Jon Ivar Tr|stheim) sez:
>> Why does not the following command work in a Bourne shell script ?
>> 	USERID=`expr "`id`" : 'uid=\([0-9]*\)(.*'`
>
>escape the inner backquotes:
>
>	USERID=`expr "\`id\`" : 'uid=\([0-9]*\)(.*'`
>
>This works on the Bourne and Korn shells using System V R2.1 on a 3B20.

On Korn shell only, you can also use the form $(command) instead of
`command`, which nests and is more readable for complicated
command substitutions.
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