On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: >> Actually I was asking for the case when 'local' is not used: >> >> foo=$(echo bar; false) >> >> this assignment expression returns false, and I'm wondering where >> that's documented. > > Look in the SIMPLE COMMAND EXPANSION section of the man page: > > If there is a command name left after expansion, execution proceeds as > described below. Otherwise, the command exits. If one of the expan- > sions contained a command substitution, the exit status of the command > is the exit status of the last command substitution performed. If > there were no command substitutions, the command exits with a status of > zero. > > It's the final paragraph. >
Thanks you. -- Francis
