"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 _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash