On Wednesday 25 August 2004 11:08, Martin McCarthy wrote:
>
> You'll probably want to untrap the ^C for the child script. Something
> like:
>
> trap '' 2
> for i in "$1"/* ; do
> [ -d "$i" ] && continue
> if [ -x "$i" ]; then
> ( trap 2; "$i" )
> fi
> done
>
I'm a bit hazy on the whole trap thing - I'd have tried running the child in
in the background and using wait to ensure jobs run sequentially.
for i in "$1"/* ; do
[ -d "$i" ] && continue
if [ -x "$i" ]; then
$i &
wait
fi
done
Doesn't mean that Martin's suggestion is wrong (or that mine is right ;-)
C.
_______________________________________________
Scottish mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
