On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Kris Maglione <maglion...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 09:06:55PM -0700, Suraj Kurapati wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:49 AM, David Engster <d...@randomsample.de>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> wmiir read /event | awk '/./ { print; fflush() } END { print "" }'
>>
>> What's the purpose of awk here? I see the same result both with and
>> without awk in Arch Linux with awk = GNU Awk 3.1.8.
>
> There's a bug in dash 0.5.6's job control where a SIGCHLD interrupts the
> read loop,
Why is anyone still writing scripts in bourne-derived shells? Just
switch to rc and never look back, it will save you a huge amount of
headaches and wasted time.
It wasn't long ago that WMII just used rc for its scripting needs.
uriel
