On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:13:42 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Command substitution certainly has to spawn a subshell, even > for built-in commands, because otherwise you could modify > parent shell variables within command substitutions. But isn't that exactly what's happening here, where PWD is being tainted by the commands evaluated within the substitution? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message