On 9/1/25 2:13 PM, Stan Marsh wrote:
The crux of the confusion is the difficulty in identifying when subprocesses are created.- Brackets always ensure a subshell.Parentheses. Brackets are [ and ] in bash and POSIX nomenclature.I think Europeans (**) often call them (*) "brackets". I've noticed this a lot over the years.
Sure. But if you look for `brackets' in the bash documentation, you're not
going to find references to subshells.
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