> > Sorry to frustrate you with my sloppy cut and paste and brain addled > proofreading. > That should read: > > Bash continues to amaze me. > > I know what & does in the general sense, and I suspect that &(...) forks > off > some processes from within a script. > > But > > I don't _know_ what that does. Lack of punctuation based searching in > impeding my efforts to look it up. > Having had to work last night (jobs are useful but sometimes ...) > prevented me from experimenting. > > So I asked. >
I'd be curious to see this in the larger context? "&" be used as a control character among other uses. There does exist the command ((...)) --enable-dparen-arithmeticInclude support for the ((...)) command (see Conditional Constructs<http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Conditional-Constructs> ). Single parens usually denote an expression "(value)" with a used in a test utility. But the "..." is what really throws me. This is generally used as a symbolic reference in describing BASH commands such as name=(value1 ... valuen). Whatever the command syntax does, it seems to not be very highly referenced... _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
