On Friday, 14 July 2023 00:02:05 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sat, Jul 08, 2023 at 12:42:13PM -0300 schrieb David M. Fellows: > > while [ true ] ; do cat /proc/loadavg |logger; sleep 60; done > > A spec more elegant: > > while sleep 60; do ... ; done
I tried this in a bash script: merging=true echo "" > /var/log/local0.log while [ $merging ] ; do cat /proc/loadavg | logger -p local0.info; sleep 10; done & /usr/bin/emerge "$@"; merging=false ... But the emerge command is never executed. I thought the '&' would detach the logging command to run in the background. Shellcheck only complains about the 'cat' being useless; nothing about the logic, as I suppose I should have expected. My programming days are long behind me, as you can see. :( -- Regards, Peter.
