On 4/4/24 9:05 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
Reproducing my comment [1] for the list:On Apr 4, 2024, at 5:57 PM, Richard Waite <invalid.nore...@gnu.org> wrote: Does variable expansion for here-documents occur in a subshell?Sometimes. When a command requires forking (roughly speaking), its redirections (not just here-documents) are processed after the fork as an optimization.
Not just as an optimization: that's how the Bourne shell did it, so bash
has always done it that way for compatibility.
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