I can confirm this on Edgy. If you increase the number of iterations, the result is more dramatic. In Edgy, it occurs for both syntaxes.
I noticed, however, that memory usage seems to peak. If you repeatedly run the loop, bashs memory footprint will eventually stop growing. -- bash (feisty) is not freeing memory of backticked output https://launchpad.net/bugs/82123 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
