Backticking in Shell Scripts

Fri May 1 06:17:00 GMT 1998

I just installed cygwin32 19.1, but am having a strange problem. I'm
sure I have something set up wrong, but I have absolutely no idea what I
goofed up.
If I am at a bach prompt, the following will produce the correct output:
 # echo `uname -a`
But, if I try
 #!/bin/bash
 echo `uname -a`
I get a null string. If I add -v and -x flags for bash I can see that
uname is getting executed.
I looked through the FAQ and the mailing list archives with no luck. 
Any ideas? If it makes any difference I am using WinNT 4.0 SP 3. 
Thanks.
--Matt Donadio (m.p.donadio@ieee.org)
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