On 1/2/14, 2:19 PM, P Fudd wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm at my wit's end. This script is not working:
This comes up regularly. The last time was less than a month ago: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2013-12/msg00066.html If you have the Bash FAQ, this is covered in question E4. Greg Wooledge's FAQ also considers the topic: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/024 > I'm baffled; it's like the while loop is in a parallel universe. That is, in effect, what a pipeline is: separate processes run in parallel with chained input and output. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
