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Re: Why is this executed inside a subshell?
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: Why is this executed inside a subshell? |
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Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:56:30 -0500 |
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"Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3" <mn-pg-p-e-b-consultant-3.com@siemens.com> wrote:
> But it seems that within a $(...), even shell functions are executed
> in a child process. Is this supposed to work that way?
Yes. $() passes the output of the inner command to the outer shell
via a pipe, with the inner command running in a separate process.
paul