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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 13:46:48 -0700
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Subject: Re: function definition with & operator
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On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Eric Cook <llua@gmx.com> 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, even if you use the {
command } syntax.  There is no such thing as a background job in the
current shell.