In article <20060913184045.GA15526@moray.salmi.ch>,
Jukka Salmi  <j+nbsd@2006.salmi.ch> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>which shell is right?
>
>$ cat reldate
>echo "`cut -d\\\" -f2 reldate.h`"
>
>$ cat reldate.h
>const char *ReleaseDate = "2006-09-08";
>
>$ ksh reldate
>reldate: no closing quote
>
>$ sh reldate
>2006-09-08
>
>$ bash reldate
>2006-09-08
>
>
>Hints are welcome...

You should stop using `` and always use $() instead:
    - `` does not nest
    - variable expansion semantics are not well defined in ``

$ cat reldate
echo "$(cut -d\" -f2 reldate.h)"

works in all 3 shells.

christos