From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 28 14:29:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperion.aepnet.com (hyperion.aepnet.com [208.129.247.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3022014D61 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 14:29:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@aepnet.com) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by hyperion.aepnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA92794; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 15:29:47 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chris@aepnet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: hyperion.aepnet.com: chris owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 15:29:47 -0700 (MST) From: chris To: Joss Roots Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why this line never returns "2>&1" ? In-Reply-To: <19991228220835.3530.qmail@web116.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG doh, I should pay more attention and not waste bandwidth so... change that ";" in my last suggestion to "&" so that the buildwolrd happens in the background, and tail actually starts before the buildworld finishes :) silly me, chris 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 > do somthing here.... <-- this is nevern reached > > thanks again for helping. > > ===== > MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU. > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://messenger.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message