How does one escape backticks in markdown?

Question

I am writing some documentation in markdown and I want to document how to create a text file using a bash HEREDOC. Here is the command I want to document:

Answer 1

I think you need to change the "delimiter" from a single back tick to a double...

i.e.: ``value3=\`hostname\` ``

should render

> value3=\`hostname\`