On Aug 31 2025, G. Branden Robinson wrote:

> At 2025-08-31T19:20:58+0000, Maria wrote:
>>>> for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do sleep 1; echo $i; done > >(echo)
>
>> I tried the input you provided, and indeed it is just the subprocess
>> that exits, but with my input, it is Bash itself that exits, not the
>> subprocess.
>
> I wonder if the `lastpipe` shell option is implicated.

This is not a pipeline, but a normal redirection (though the process
substitution procuces a file that is connected to a pipe, thus behaves
like a pipeline).

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