In some cases the expansion ${ cmd;} hangs forever. For example, this
never returns:

    l=${ cat man93.html; }

while this works as expected:

    l=$(cat man93.html)

It appears to depend on the length of the output, as is works with
shorter files.

Regards,
Bernd

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Bernd Eggink
http://sudrala.de
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