ksh variable substitution

I am trying to write a ksh script that will generate commands. I will be passing variables to the script of the script will read lines from a file. I then want to substitute these variables into a command which I run with ``. First of all can variables be substituted into a line being executed with `` surrounding it. I cannot easily tell. Here is a piece of the code. I echo it first (substitutions are made here).
echo rman target / restore controlfile to $DATAGROUP2 from $line
rman target / restore controlfile to +DATAGROUP1 from /u12/oracle/EBSSTAGE/db/apps_st/data/cntrl03.dbf

Then I run the command
var1=`rman target / restore controlfile to $DATAGROUP2 from $line;`

Hello and welcome!

I don't quite understand what you are after. I can tell you that you can capture the output of a command using either backticks:

Code:

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VAR=`command`

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or using the nest-friendly dollar/parenthesis alternative:

Code:

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VAR=$(command)

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in both instances, the STDOUT of the command will be saved to the variable VAR, instead of being sent to the terminal.

Perhaps you can post all of your code, or just go into more specifics about what it is you are trying to accomplish.

This issue is somewhere between an rman issue and a korn shell issue. I am reading a file (controlfiole.txt) and I am generating an rman command and executing it. I have the reading and generating done and I am executing with ``. Doing it this way all of the rman variables have to be on one line. So I don't think I can split it up. This is for ASM implementation so '$DATAGROUP is my group name and $line2 is the control file path and name which I read in as $line. If I split up as you recommend, subsequent rman input lines are not aware that I have started an RMAN session.
This is the result of the echo;
rman target / restore controlfile to +DATAGROUP1 from /u12/oracle/EBSSTAGE/db/apps_st/data/cntrl03.dbf


#!/bin/ksh
DATAGROUP=\'+DATAGROUP1\'
file='controlfile.txt'
# while loop
while read line
do
if [ -d ${line} ];
then
# display line or do somthing on $line
echo 'yep'
else
line2=\'$line\';
echo rman target system/xxxxxxxx restore controlfile to $DATAGROUP from $line;
var1=`rman target system\/xxxxxxxx restore controlfile to $DATAGROUP from $line2;`
print $var1
fi
done <"$file"

What's the point of using var1 at all?

If you want to execute the full statement of var1 later on, just use double quotes
var1="ls -a"

Then when you want to run whatever command you stored:
$var1

Using var1=`ls -a`
would store the output of ls -a as var1, not the instructions to run the command.