On 5/22/24 10:57 PM, Oğuz wrote:

And some Bourne shells expand command substitutions first

$ (exit 5)
$ x=$? y=`exit 10`
$ echo $x
10

It's worse than that. The v7 sh performed assignments right to left.

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