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Re: Arithmetic expansion with increments and output redirection
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Arithmetic expansion with increments and output redirection |
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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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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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