I don't think this ever made it to the list.
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On 5/16/23 5:40 PM, Ángel wrote:
On 2023-05-15 at 13:35 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
     There is an alternate form of command substitution:

       ${C COMMAND; }

I find this description confusing, as it looks like a literal 'C'.

Only in the info document, since that's how it renders @var. C is a
meta-syntactic variable denoting a set of possible characters.

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