"Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But it seems that within a $(...), even shell functions are executed
> in a child process. Is this supposed to work that way?

Yes.  $() passes the output of the inner command to the outer shell
via a pipe, with the inner command running in a separate process.


paul


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