>>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. But I also include "angle brackets": < and > (*) What we call "parentheses". (**) Especially people in the UK (which is still part of Europe, if not the EU). ================================================================================= Please do not send me replies to my posts on the list. I always read the replies via the web archive, so CC'ing to me is unnecessary. When responding to my posts, please try to refrain from giving bureaucratic answers. If you have nothing useful to say, then just click Next and go on.
