How to properly nest Bash backticks

Question

Either I missed some backlash or backlashing does not seem to work with too much programmer-quote-looping.

$ echo \"hello1-`echo hello2-\\`echo hello3-\\`ech         


        

Answer 1

if you insist to use backticks, following could be done

$ echo "hello1-`echo hello2-\`echo hello3-\\\`echo hello4\\\`\``"

you have to put backslashes, \\ \\\\ \\\\\\\\ by 2x and so on, its just very ugly, use $(commands) as other suggested.