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  1. Bug #82123
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Comment 1 for bug 82123

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Scott Severance (scott.severance) wrote : Re: bash (feisty) is not freeing memory of backticked output

I can confirm this on Edgy. If you increase the number of iterations, the result is more dramatic. In Edgy, it occurs for both syntaxes.

I noticed, however, that memory usage seems to peak. If you repeatedly run the loop, bashs memory footprint will eventually stop growing.