Re: nofork command substitution

[Martijn Dekker]

Op 22-05-2023 om 16:18 schreef Chet Ramey:
> I'd call that a bug. It's not how mksh documents this type of command
> substitution to work. ksh93 documents the parsing the same way.

So it does, yet ksh93 also accepts omitting the ;.

The only documentation of this is in the legacy changelog:

> 08-03-10  The new ${...} command substitution will treat the trailing }
>           as a reserved word even if it is not at the beginning of a command,
>           for example, ${ date }.

Which means something like 'echo }' breaks in such a comsub.

It is what it is. I will fix the documentation to match reality in ksh 
93u+m.

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