On 5/15/07, Benn Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Duff answered ron's question in "Rc — The Plan 9 Shell".
12. Command grouping
A sequence of commands enclosed in {} may be used anywhere a command is
required. For example:
{sleep 3600;echo 'Time''s up!'}&
will wait an hour in the background, then print a message. Without the
braces,
sleep 3600;echo 'Time''s up!'&
would lock up the terminal for an hour, then print the message in the
background.
it does not really answer the question.
cmd ; cmd is two commands.
cmd | cmd is one command.
cmd ; cmd & will background the second command
cmd|cmd & should background both.
Just try this:
sleep 5|wc
and then
sleep 5|wc&
The | forms the two commands into a compound and the compound is backgrounded.
That works fine. But in a for it did not. This did work however:
for(i){{tail -f $i | whatever}&}
ron
