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From: chet@cwns1.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: Brace yourself for a bug :-)
Message-ID: <1990Jan23.220425.11208@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 90 22:04:25 GMT
References: <13925@reed.UUCP>
Reply-To: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
Organization: Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
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In article <13925@reed.UUCP> trost@reed.bitnet (Bill Trost,Box 607,ext 571,497) writes:
>The command line
>	{ sleep 3 ; /bin/echo foo } &
>gets parsed as
>	sleep 3 ; /bin/echo foo &

I'd like to congratulate Bill for always coming up with the most interesting
bugs.  This one took a while.

The problem is not the parsing, but the execution (that is, the line is
parsed correctly, but the execution of group commands discards this kind of
background information).  I have sent a fix to Brian. 

Chet
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