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be more accurate but terse regarding pipe sequences

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somehow, variables don’t propagate up much more often
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.\" $MirOS: src/bin/mksh/mksh.1,v 1.100 2007/09/09 19:18:59 tg Exp $
.\" $MirOS: src/bin/mksh/mksh.1,v 1.101 2007/09/26 19:26:58 tg Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: ksh.1,v 1.120 2007/05/31 20:47:44 otto Exp $
.\"
.Dd September 9, 2007
.Dd September 26, 2007
.Dt MKSH 1
.Os MirBSD
.Sh NAME
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IRC channel at
.Pa irc.freenode.net:6667 .
.Pp
By the way, the most frequently reported bug is:
By the way, the snippet
.Bd -literal -offset indent
$ print hi \*(Ba read a; print $a # Does not show hi
.Ed
.Pp
This does not work because the last command of a pipe sequence
is executed in a subshell.
This is an
.Nm
feature which can be depended on by scripts.
Use co-processes to work around if necessary and possible.
does not work, because commands of a pipe sequence are executed in
a subshell (but you can usually use co-processes instead of pipes).