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From: Gavin Rebeiro <gavin.rebeiro1@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Suggestion that might help clarify meaning
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 18:25:40 +0100
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Hi,

I've been searching the BASH manual (
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html) to find out about the
precedence/sequence that the shell parses commands. The particular question
I've had which I was helped with:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/526646/precedence-of-subshells-in-relation-to-redirection
.

May I request a slight edit in the sentence from section 3.7.1 Simple
Command Expansion:

"When a simple command is executed, the shell performs the following
expansions, assignments, and redirections, from left to right. "

to something like:

"When a simple command is executed, the shell performs the following
expansions, assignments, and redirections, from left to right, in the
following sequence."

or

"When a simple command is executed, the shell performs the following
expansions, assignments, and redirections, from left to right, with the
following precedence. "

As this makes it a bit more explicit that the following list gives a
sequence/precedence that tells us the order in which commands are parsed.
The intended meaning wasn't fully clear to me upon first reading and I
believe that this would make the documentation more readable and might
prevent cases of similar confusion.

Best wishes,
Gavin Rebeiro