On 9/29/16 11:49 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote: > I detected an oddity (possible bug) in bash: the usual optimisation for > launching external processes in simple command substitutions is turned > off while executing a dot script.
Thanks for the suggestion. I added the optimization to command substitution in the presence of `.' and eval. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/