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Re: && operator prevents backgrounding over ssh
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: && operator prevents backgrounding over ssh |
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Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:48:07 -0400 |
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On 9/26/13 10:52 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 06:27:10AM +0000, Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson wrote:
>> The "&&" operator in bash seems to inhibit backgrounding when run over
>> ssh. You can try it with the following:
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>> ssh localhost "cd /tmp && nohup sleep 10 >/dev/null 2>&1 &"
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>> The above command will wait for sleep(1) to finish before returning.
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> Confirmed on HP-UX 10.20 with bash 4.2.37. Changing && to ; causes
> an immediate return.
Those two are not equivalent; `&&' and `;' have different precedence.
Chet
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