Why use backticks?

[Tim Roberts]

Jeff Epler <jepler at unpythonic.net> wrote:
>
>yep, looks like you're right.  But assuming there's some way to spell
>"2>&1" for the Windows shell it should be possible to remove the /bin/sh
>assumption.

Actually, you can spell it exactly "2>&1" on Windows NT 4.0, 2000, and XP.

Only the 16-bit systems (9X, ME) do not support the file number syntax.
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