From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] A simple rc question
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:48:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2ddf08d5378a0085dbf48bd98d52c3f9@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10705150838y7148f207m8fbc1631752fc8aa@mail.gmail.com>
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.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-15 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-15 15:38 ron minnich
2007-05-15 15:46 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-05-15 15:48 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-05-15 16:08 ` ron minnich
2007-05-15 16:18 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-05-16 0:24 ` Kris Maglione
2007-05-15 23:03 Benn Newman
2007-05-15 23:29 ` ron minnich
2007-05-15 23:35 ` Kris Maglione
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