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Re:Explain Shell by Theriac25 on Monday December 02, 2013 @01:50PM (#6835567)

Doesn't seem to support backquotes? For example

    for x in `ls ~/foo`; do echo $x; done

doesn't yield anything remotely interesting.

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Re:Explain Shell by nailer on Monday December 02, 2013 @02:07PM (#6835713)

New style subshells aren't supported (yet) either:

   for x in $(ls ~/foo); do echo $x; done

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