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use of ampersand for backgrounding foils termination parsing?
From: |
smcdermott |
Subject: |
use of ampersand for backgrounding foils termination parsing? |
Date: |
Sun, 2 Feb 2003 18:47:57 -0500 (EST) |
Configuration Information:
Machine: i686
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib
-D_GNU_SOURCE -O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686
uname output: Linux lujuria.roc.questra.com
2.4.20-ac2+neilb+trondmy+gibbs-aic-20021220 #5 SMP Tue Jan 21 00:24:35 EST 2003
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
Bash Version: 2.05b
Patch Level: 0
Release Status: release
Description:
semicolons to delimit commands usually work identically to newlines,
but in the case where they follow an ampersand, there appears to be a
syntax error generated.
Repeat-By:
the command
for N in `seq 1 5`; do somecommand &; done
does not work, but
for N in `seq 1 5`; do
somecommand &
done
works fine.
- use of ampersand for backgrounding foils termination parsing?,
smcdermott <=