Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <002601c3612f$8846e2d0$200aa8c0@thorin> From: "Carlo Florendo" To: Cc: "Menon, Girish \(MED, WIPRO-GE MED\)" References: Subject: Re: Backtick does not work Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 08:12:06 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED)" > From the bash shell the ` (backtick or command execution) work. But when > I spawn a process and execute a shell script which contains the back > ticks, the process just chokes. > > For example, a simple shell script like > #!/bin/sh > .. > .. > myenv=`/bin/env | grep CYGWIN` Check the permissions of your script. It should at least be +x for the one who executes it. Please be more specific on what doesn't work? Does echoing not work, say, if you add `echo $myenv' in your script? By the way, this does not seem to be a cygwin problem. Kindly check for more info in http://www.cygwin.com/problems.html Thanks! Best Regards, Carlo ------ Carlo Florendo Astra Philippines Inc. URL: http://www.hq.astra.ph/resources -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/