Martin Kealey <mar...@kurahaupo.gen.nz> writes: > What do other shells do? Ksh? Dash? Zsh?
$ ksh -c 'printf "foo1\nfoo2\n" | { (read x; echo 1: $x) & (read x; echo 2: $x) & }' 1: foo1 2: foo2 $ dash -c 'printf "foo1\nfoo2\n" | { (read x; echo 1: $x) & (read x; echo 2: $x) & }' 1: 2: $ zsh -c 'printf "foo1\nfoo2\n" | { (read x; echo 1: $x) & (read x; echo 2: $x) & }' 1: foo1 2: foo2 $ bash -c 'printf "foo1\nfoo2\n" | { (read x; echo 1: $x) & (read x; echo 2: $x) & }' 1: 2: foo1 Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."