Re: nofork command substitution

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/25/23 1:19 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
>      Date:        Thu, 25 May 2023 10:17:01 -0400
>      From:        Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
>      Message-ID:  <c3e74434-696f-0b56-9b15-0fa01dc02e40@case.edu>
>
>
>    | a nofork command substitution is
>    | '${' compound_list '}',
>
> you omitted the extra char there, not that it matters for
> the purpose here.

It's part of a compound_list.

>    | The difference, as you say, is
>    | that a command substitution is allowed as part of a word,
>
> Not "allowed as", always is, that's the only place it can appear.
> It might be the whole part, a prefix part, a suffix part, or an
> embedded part, but it is always a part of a word.

The second half of the sentence is more relevant to the grammar discussion.

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