Fwd: Re: nofork command substitution

[Chet Ramey]

I don't think this ever made it to the list.
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> Re: nofork command substitution
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> Wed, 17 May 2023 11:53:46 -0400
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> On 5/16/23 5:40 PM, Ángel wrote:
> > On 2023-05-15 at 13:35 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > >      There is an alternate form of command substitution:
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> > >        ${C COMMAND; }
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> > I find this description confusing, as it looks like a literal 'C'.
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> Only in the info document, since that's how it renders @var. C is a
> meta-syntactic variable denoting a set of possible characters.
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