Re: nofork command substitution

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/19/23 11:56 AM, alex xmb ratchev wrote:

>     Command substitution is a word expansion; word expansions are performed on
>     words; command substitution occurs as part of a word. That all seems
>     self-evident. The only reason to mention it is the quirk required to have
>     the close brace act as a reserved word when it is needed to terminate the
>     command (you know someone will eventually ask about it).
>
>
> why this

Why what? Why the reserved word? So the parser will terminate the group
command without too much violence to the tokenizer.

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