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Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 19:35:59 -0400
From: Kris Maglione <bsdaemon@comcast.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] A simple rc question
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On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:29:45PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> That works fine. But in a for it did not. This did work however:
> for(i){{tail -f $i | whatever}&}

The second set of braces is superfluous. The & binds looser than the |,=20
and also looser than the for loop. Simply for(i) { tail -f $i | foo & }=20
is sufficient.

--=20
Kris Maglione

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programmers don't know how to spell quiche.  They eat
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