Re: in-line calls to functions cause "exit" in the function to act like "return"

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/18/21 8:07 AM, yesxorno via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again 
SHell wrote:

> When 'exit' is executed in a function called to "in-line" its output to 
 > stdout, the 'exit' acts like return, leaving the function scope, but 
not > terminating the bash process.

I assume by "in-line" you mean command substitution.

The bash documentation says this about command substitution:

"Bash performs the expansion by executing command in a subshell environ-
ment and replacing the command substitution with the standard output of
the command, with any trailing newlines deleted."

The documentation describes a subshell environment more completely, but
the important piece is that the shell forks and creates a subshell. That
subshell is what the `exit' acts on.

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