From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-11-15T05:00:06+09:00
Subject: Re: backtick subshell

Noah Easterly wrote:

> What subshell does ` (backquote) use to run commands?

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> `echo $SHELL`
=> "/bin/bash\n"

YMMV, depending on platform and version.

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