Geoff Clare <g...@opengroup.org> wrote:
> It's only easy because (most/all?) shells take the easy option and do
> a lexical analysis of the command to be substituted. Applications can't
> expect the following to work, but if the feature was implemented
> "properly", it would:
>
> showalltraps() { trap -p; }
> alltraps=$(showalltraps)
Could you explain what you understand by "most shells take the easy option and
do a lexical analysis of the command to be substituted."
What I however remember is that nobody checked the output of the command
when used in a command substitution...while we discussed the new feature.
Jörg
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