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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] A simple rc question
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 17:18:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d40a7924557c09acd83e2b1b0f80ee@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10705150908y225a0a47l1d70c36b0ad5ec14@mail.gmail.com>

> 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 ...

a PIPE is a cmd, so i'd expect that too.
it would also be tedious if
	cat burp | sed 's/mumble/frog/' | md5sum &
ran only the md5sum in the background.



  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-15 16:18 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
2007-05-15 16:08   ` ron minnich
2007-05-15 16:18     ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
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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