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Date:      Tue, 28 Dec 1999 15:27:38 -0700 (MST)
From:      chris <chris@aepnet.com>
To:        Joss Roots <osiris2002@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why this line never returns "2>&1" ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912281525490.92787-100000@hyperion.aepnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991228220835.3530.qmail@web116.yahoomail.com>

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On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Joss Roots wrote:

> hi there,
> thanks for all the people who helped me
> finish my shell script.
> 
> but one thing though, this line waits forever
> and never seem to give control back to its shell
> script to finsh the rest of the magic,
> 
> do something here ... <-- ok of  course
> cvsup -g ports.sup > mylog 2>&1 | tail -F mylog

try: 
cvsup -g ports.sup > mylog 2>&1
tail -F mylog
if you want them on the same line, separate them with ";", not "|" which
is a pipe..

> do somthing here.... <-- this is nevern reached
> 
> thanks again for helping.
> 
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