Re: nofork command substitution

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/15/23 2:42 PM, Oğuz İsmail Uysal wrote:
> On 5/15/23 8:35 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > Please test it out
>
>      $ cat
>      ^Z
>      [1]+  Stopped                 cat
>      $ x=${ fg;}
>      foo
>      foo
>      <^C or ^D here>
>      $ declare -p x
>      declare -- x="cat"
>      $
>
> Is this intended?

So far, yes. Everything is shared between the comsub and its caller, with a
couple of documented exceptions. So it's just like calling `fg' in the
current execution environment, but capturing the output.

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