Dear experts,
I am in a situation where I need to generate as script for a graphical package on fly from with in a shell script. I would like to do the below which create a file in which grave accent has to be there
However below script do not work I tried different things like
'''`nc_v[i=2]`''' etc but none appears to work any help on this is greatly appreciated

cat > ./comp_cur.jnl << DLIM
go set_view
let nc_v=..varnames
def sym u="`nc_v[i=2]`"
def sym v="`nc_v[i=3]`"
set vie v11
ppl txlabp 0
plot/nolab/set '($u)',hyc_u[d=1]*100
DLIM

with best regards,
Sudheer

Use the \ character to escape the back tick (grave)

ie:

\'

You can even use the \ to escape itself \\

Thank you Cope,
Did you mean as below then it did not work for me. I am using Ubuntu 10.04 with bash shell

$ cat ts
cat > ./comp_cur.jnl << DLIM
go set_view
let nc_v=..varnames
def sym u=\`nc_v[i=2]`\
def sym v=\`nc_v[i=3]`\
set vie v11
ppl txlabp 0
plot/nolab/set \'($u)'\,hyc_u[d=1]*100
DLIM
sjo@sjo-laptop:/media/SJO250/Rama_moor/RAMA_9-NOV-2010/CUR$ sh ts
ts: 2: Syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution

You seem to be mixing backquote (`) and single quote ('). These are NOT the same.
Normally, `$nnn` is used to run a var as a cmd (old school style). The modern idiom in bash is

$($nnn)

instead.
Note tha tin both cases, it runs in a sub-shell; see links below.

Single quotes are used to stop bash interpolating values that look like vars eg

'$fred'

is seen as just fred, whereas double quotes "$fred" would allow bash to interpret the $ sigil as the beginning of a var named fred.
See http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-G...tml/index.html http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

Incidentally, escaping means putting the \ just before the char in qn. Eg \` means a literal backquote.
Adding one after the backquote has zero effect on the backquote.

HTH

Thank you Guru
using \`ss\` solved my problem with grave accent and this '(\$u)' with $u in bracket

Let you try this way:

cat > ./comp_cur.jnl << 'DLIM'
go set_view
let nc_v=..varnames
def sym u=\`nc_v[i=2]`\
def sym v=\`nc_v[i=3]`\
set vie v11
ppl txlabp 0
plot/nolab/set \'($u)'\,hyc_u[d=1]*100
DLIM

It is the example of here-document, but with parameter substitution disabled.