>From the bash shell the ` (backtick or command execution) work. But when I spawn a process and execute a shell script which contains the back ticks, the process just chokes. For example, a simple shell script like #!/bin/sh .. .. myenv=`/bin/env | grep CYGWIN` .. .. I am able to execute this script properly from the bash shell (as any user on the system). I am not getting any error at all from the execution of the script. It just quits. I checked the error code too. It is 0. But this same script when executed via a spawned process does not work. Any help? Girish -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/