alright, never mind what I said before: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/process-sub.html http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/process-sub.html Looks like the equivalent

alright, never mind what I said before: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/process-sub.html http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/process-sub.html Looks like the equivalent of the "read" example partway down the page. curl is actually being executed in a subshell.