On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Carl Parrish wrote:

> Is it because it's testing the "word" whoami instead of the output? if
> show how do I make it exe the output first?

Using the backticks executes the command in a subshell, and then returns
the resulting output.  So the line you have should work fine.  Maybe you
have a problem somewhere else in your script.  You could send us your
script so we can take a look, if you want.
~M