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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:48:51 -0400
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] A simple rc question
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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