Re: why does </proc/self/environ not work in bash?

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/12/24 4:22 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2024, at 3:56 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:

> > Well it says:
> > "3. Redirections shall be performed as described in Redirection"
> >
> > Which is surrounded by stuff that still has to be done by the shell.
>
> Done by *a* shell.  AFAICT the standard does not say *which* shell
> -- the original or a child forked in preparation of executing the
> utility.

"When expanding the words in a command about to be executed that are used 
with variable
assignments or redirections, it is unspecified whether the expansions are 
carried out in the
current execution environment or in the environment of the command about to 
be executed."

That's from the latest draft of the upcoming revision.

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