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Re: excess braces ignored: bug or feature ?
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: excess braces ignored: bug or feature ? |
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Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:52:04 -0500 |
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On 2/20/12 4:17 AM, Dan Douglas wrote:
> On Sunday, February 19, 2012 04:25:46 PM Chet Ramey wrote:
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>> I assume you mean the first one. It doesn't matter whether or not the
>> variable is set as a side effect of the redirection -- it's in a
>> subshell and disappears.
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>> Chet
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> Forgot to mention though, It's possible in ksh there is no subshell created
> if
> you consider this:
The best way to tell for sure is with a system call tracer.
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Re: excess braces ignored: bug or feature ?, Chet Ramey, 2012/02/19