# from Michael Rasmussen # on Thursday 16 February 2012 05:38: >I know what & does in the general sense, and I suspect that &(...) > forks off some processes from within a script.
Not exactly. If I'm reading correctly, there is not any special construct '&(...)' -- it just backgrounds the commands before the & and runs a subshell of the () part. It's the same thing as '& (...)' c.f. '; (...)', which seems not as interesting as '$(...)', '<(...)', or '>(...)' I think. http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Command-Grouping http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Shell-Expansions I did run across coproc while reading though and now need to find a chance to use that. --Eric -- Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. --The Napoleon-Clarke Law --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com --------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
