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Command substitution is enabled in single quotes also.

(a) True

(b) False

This question was addressed to me during a job interview.

The query is from Command Substitution and Shell Variables topic in portion The Shell of Unix

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Correct option is (b) False

The best I can explain: Command substitution is enabled only when we use double quotes. If we use single quotes, it will not work. For example,

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