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Subject: Re: [9fans] A simple rc question
From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 17:18:26 +0100
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> 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.