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Re: use of ampersand for backgrounding foils termination parsing?
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: use of ampersand for backgrounding foils termination parsing? |
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Mon, 03 Feb 2003 13:22:40 -0500 |
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smcdermott@questra.com wrote:
> Description:
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> 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:
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> the command
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> for N in `seq 1 5`; do somecommand &; done
Ampersand also terminates a command, just like semicolon does. If you
use an ampersand, there's no need for a semicolon.
paul