I put a comment in before the line with a problem, I don't understand why it's not working.
bash# for x in 1 2 3 4; do time dd if=/dev/random of=/home/test$x bs=1k count=64k & done \ while [ $V -eq 0 ]; \ do \ #why the hell is this such a problem! V = 0 \ clear \ echo -n "Jobs running... " \ if jobs 4; then; echo -n "last job running!"; else; echo -n "last job stopped"; env V=1; fi \ sleep 1 \ done time cat secure1 secure2 secure3 secure4 > secure_t.vnd \ time rm secure1 secure2 secure3 secure4 John Tate. -- www.johntate.org