Re: nofork command substitution

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/18/23 9:58 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> Ángel <angel@16bits.net> writes:
> > I suggest:
> >
> > >      There is an alternate form of command substitution:
> > >   
> > >        ${ COMMAND; }
> >
> > and clarify later the other variants in addition to a space:
> >
> > > The character following the open brace must be a space, tab,
> > > newline, '(', or '|', and the close brace must be in a position...
>
> I support either that change, or reordering the text to specify "C" at
> the beginning, when the syntax is being described, before the semantics
> are described:

I think it's more important to describe the primary reason it differs from
standard command substitution before getting into the syntax.

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