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Re: Arithmetic expansion with increments and output redirection


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Arithmetic expansion with increments and output redirection
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:12:44 -0400
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On 4/24/19 8:47 AM, Ian Neal wrote:

> At what point is a subshell being invoked? There's no pipeline, command
> substitution, coprocess, background process, or explicit () subshell here,
> which are the only cases a subshell should be created. Otherwise, the
> entire operation should be evaluated by the main shell. Arithmetic
> expansion is not in that list.

Why would you think that /bin/true would be "evaluated by the main shell?"
It's not a shell compound command or a builtin, and non-builtin commands
are run in child processes.

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