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Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 09:08:37 -0700
From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] A simple rc question
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On 5/15/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> i think you have backgrounded the awk, but not the tail.
> i think what you want is
>
>         for(f){
>                 {tail -f $f | awk '{print "'^$f^':" $0}'}&}
>         }
>
> it sure looks like there are excessive {}s, but i think they are necessary.
> otherwise & will bind to either awk or the for.

I suspected that and will try it, but the man page is pretty clear (I
thought) that
a|b is a single command. I still think the & should bind to the
pipeline, but ...

ron