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1. Newbie question: Nested command substitution???

How can I nest substituted commands? Here's what I need:

I have a directory e.g. /usr/velocity/spool/Queued/VBG-DWS-00001
What I need to extract is Queued.
Right now, I do something like this:

directory="/usr/velocity/spool/Queued/VBG-DWS-00001"
parent=`dirname $directory`
status=`basename $parent`

This works fine, but I would like to do something like this:

status=`basename `dirname $directory``

However, the above does not work, probably because the quoting is
screwed up. How do I do this right?

TIA

js

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