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Tim Kientzle wrote this message on Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 21:19 -0700:
> Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev wrote:
> >Juli Mallett wrote:
> >
> >>Anyone with insight into this?
> >>
> >>(jmallett@big-lizard:~)39% ( echo 1 ; ( ( echo 2 ; echo 3 ) | xargs -I% 
> >>echo + % ) )
> >>1
> >>+ 2
> >>+ 3
> >>(jmallett@big-lizard:~)40% ( echo 1 ; ( ( echo 2 ; echo 3 ) | xargs -I% 
> >>echo + % ) ) | cat
> >>1
> >>+ +2
> >>3
> >
> >last cat is not necessary...
> >And it's more weird than that:
> >
> >>( echo 1 ; ( ( echo 2 ; echo 3 ) | xargs -I% echo -- + % ) )
> >
> >1
> >-- --+  +2 
> >3
> >
> 
> 
> Hmmm... This looks like xargs isn't waiting for the subcommand
> to exit.  This looks like 'echo -- + 2' and 'echo -- + 3' are
> running concurrently.

Yes, but the default xargs w/ -n is only one concurrently, which would
mean that tcsh is returning a valid return value before it writes.
I have gotten the 3 to appear before the 2.  

> ( ( echo 2 ; echo 3 ) | xargs -I% /bin/echo + % )
+ 3
+ 2

(btw, I can see this on sparc w/ tcsh, not bash or sh)

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