On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 06:16:46PM +0400, Denis Lagno wrote:
>> in sh(1) because the code in `...' may or may not be executed
>> in a subshell depending upon the shell's implementation,
>> and therefore can't modify the state (including variables)
>> of the current shell.
>
> Looks like POSIX prescribes execution of $(...) and `...` in a subshell:
>
> # The shell shall expand the command substitution by executing command
> in a subshell environment
My example may not have been clear enough;
with my use of `...' (backtick ellipsis quote)
I wasn't referring to the backtick (`) operator,
but the pseudo-code in the middle of a while loop
that is receiving input from a pipe.
For clarity, I should have written the example as
somecommand \
| while read foo; do
# use $foo, which may or may not be in a sub-shell
done
cheers,
Luke.
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