On 5/15/23 2:42 PM, Oğuz İsmail Uysal wrote:
On 5/15/23 8:35 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
Please test it out
$ cat
^Z
[1]+ Stopped cat
$ x=${ fg;}
foo
foo
<^C or ^D here>
$ declare -p x
declare -- x="cat"
$
Is this intended?
So far, yes. Everything is shared between the comsub and its caller, with a
couple of documented exceptions. So it's just like calling `fg' in the
current execution environment, but capturing the output.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
