>I know $() invokes a subshell, but does () ? >My guess was that the () affects the order of operations between ; and &&, so the first line is three commands,

>I know $() invokes a subshell, but does () ? >My guess was that the () affects the order of operations between ; and &&, so the first line is three commands, while the second line is two. Emphasis mine. My understanding was that the question is simply about whether () invokes a subshell or not (irrespective of set -e)