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Re: function definition with & operator

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From: Eric Cook <llua@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: function definition with & operator
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 17:23:04 -0400
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On 09/01/2017 04:46 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Eric Cook <llua@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The other week when messing around i noticed that you can define an function
>> in (what i thought would be) the background and it will remain in defined.
> 
> Background jobs are always run in a subshell, 

Exactly what i thought, but if that were the case, foo wouldn't be defined after
the first example since & was the terminator used instead of ;.

The second example behaves like i would expect.

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