Bernd Eggink wrote:
> 
> In some cases the expansion ${ cmd;} hangs forever. For example, this
> never returns:
> 
>      l=${ cat man93.html; }
> 
> while this works as expected:
> 
>      l=$(cat man93.html)
> 
> It appears to depend on the length of the output, as is works with
> shorter files.

Which size does "man93.html" have ?

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Bye,
Roland

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