Re: Fails to eval sh environment

[Paul Jarc]

Philip Willoughby <pgw99@doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote:
> Bourne shell environment variable setting/exporting does not work from within
> a backtick expression.

That's the intended behavior.

> A workaround is to substitute
> `_command_`
>
> with
>
> _command_ > blah.$$ ; . blah.$$ ; rm -f blah.$$
>
> But this is not a good solution.

eval "`_command_`"


paul