From: powlow <powlow@...>
Date: 2006-11-25T04:51:56+09:00
Subject: Re: backtick subshell

On Solaris it does seem to just use the sh shell. I tested it out with
some export commands (which work under ksh, the shell reported by `echo
$SHELL`) and errors ocurred. If, however, I did it the sh way with
setting a variable and seperately exporting and then echoing, it worked
which seems to suggest sh.

irb(main):001:0> `echo $SHELL`
=> "/bin/ksh\n"
irb(main):002:0> `export TEST=test; echo $TEST`
sh: TEST=test: is not an identifier
=> ""
irb(main):003:0> `TEST=test; export TEST; echo $TEST`
=> "test\n"

Hope that helps

On Nov 14, 8:14 pm, "Noah Easterly" <noah.easte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What subshell does ` (backquote) use to run commands?