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Date: Wed,  4 Aug 2004 09:35:20 -0700
From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
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Subject: [9fans] rc mystery
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term% echo `{date -n && sleep 2} `{sleep 2 && date -n}
1091636548 1091636548

can't figure out why?

I would have expected something more like this:

term% cat <{date -n && sleep 2} <{sleep 2 && date -n}
1091637155
1091637158