Why doesn't this work ?

[R. L. Welsh]

>From article <443 at fdmetd.uucp>, by jon at fdmetd.uucp (Jon Ivar Tr|stheim):
> Why does not the following command work in a Bourne shell script ?
> 	USERID=`expr "`id`" : 'uid=\([0-9]*\)(.*'`

Try doing:
 	USERID=`expr "\`id\`" : 'uid=\([0-9]*\)(.*'`


Because ` will still work inside ".
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