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Re:Bash 5.0 released by dualbus on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @12:52AM (#18853545)
You mean like Ksh's discipline functions?

  dualbus@system76-pc:~$ ksh -c 'date=; date.get() { .sh.value=$(date +%s); }; echo $date; sleep 5; echo $date'
  1546926637
  1546926642
See: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36870/ksh-1.html ("Discipline Functions")
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Re:Bash 5.0 released by _kst_ on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:13AM (#18853661)
Yes, just like that!
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