Even more fun: I was working on an unholy bash script that had a long curly brace block, and I was wondering why none of the environment variables survived. Th

Even more fun: I was working on an unholy bash script that had a long curly brace block, and I was wondering why none of the environment variables survived. Then I noticed, tucked away at the end: ... kill --all humans touch $children fork yourself } | log Because, you see, components of a pipeline have to be run in subshells...