cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ast-developers] Bug with ${ cmd;} expansion
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> 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.
> 

Thanks, I found and fixed this problem.  It only shows up when
cat is not a built-in command.

David Korn
[email protected]
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