ok, so, i want to do something like this where i store results of codings in a variable, but when i run it, it doesn' twork:


example

HOT=34
BOSS=`john=133
if [ "$john -eq 133 ] ; then
ADDIT=`expr 8 + 6`
case $HOT in
34) expr 4 + 5 ;; esac
fi`

Yes, that's right, backticks can't be nested. Which is why just about any shell gives you a warning when running the syntax check (eg. 'ksh -n yourscript.sh') that backticks should be replaced by the $(...) construct, which is nestable.

#!/bin/somesh (bash,dash,ksh,sh,...)
HOT=34

############################
dosome()
{
john=133
if [ "$john" -eq 133 ]
then
        ADDIT=$((8 + 6))
        case "$HOT" in
                34) echo $((4 + 5)) ;;
        esac
fi
}

############################
BOSS=$(dosome)
echo "$BOSS"