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From: rikki@macom1.UUCP (R. L. Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why doesn't this work ?
Message-ID: <4854@macom1.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 89 12:06:16 GMT
References: <443@fdmetd.uucp>
Organization: CENTEL Federal Systems, Reston, VA. 22091-1506
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From article <443@fdmetd.uucp>, by jon@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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