On 6/6/19 9:12 AM, Robert Elz wrote: > Whether bash works that way with processes created for process substitutions > (which are a non-standard thing to do) I don't know however.
The shell doesn't really have to remember them at all -- ksh93 doesn't, for instance -- but bash remembers the last one, since it sets $!. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/