From: James Edward Gray II Date: 2009-11-12T00:01:14+09:00 Subject: Re: Calling a subprocess with specific arguments and capturing its output? On Nov 11, 2009, at 2:45 AM, Dan Q wrote: > Won't shell commands in backticks be run differently, depending on what the system shell is? I'm not sure whether all unix shells have similar escaping syntax. I don't believe so. I think backticks will default to the lowest common denominator of sh. James Edward Gray II