Hello,
I am using csh to read a text file and save its words into variable $word in a foreach loop. These words have small back quotes ` as integral parts of them, for example, one word would be `abc`, another would be `xyz1` etc... These quotes are always the first and last characters of the variable $word. I need to remove these symbols and just keep abc or xyz1.


I tried this code in my csh:
set SortedID = $word
set SortedID = `echo $word | cut -d '`' -f 2`

Obviously it fails because of bad nested use of `, I should probably use an escape character in my '`', but changing it to '\`' did not work. In both cases, with or without the back slash, I get the error:

Unmatched '.

This same code does exactly what I want directly on the Linux shell, since I don't need the back cote to invoque it as I do from csh. Is there another escape character I can use? or maybe there is a different solution all together? Thanks