On 6/29/17 12:38 PM, Keith Thompson wrote: > I suggest that it would be worthwhile to mention this issue in the > documentation.
"Each command in a pipeline is executed as a separate process (i.e., in a subshell). See COMMAND EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT for a description of a subshell environment. If the lastpipe option is enabled using the shopt builtin (see the description of shopt below), the last element of a pipeline may be run by the shell process." or maybe "Builtin commands that are invoked as part of a pipeline are also executed in a subshell environment." -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/