Thanks. What I was actually trying, was this:
echo a | while read ; do some_command & done wait The "wait" did not wait. I guessed the reason was that "some_command &" was executed in a subshell. So I tried: while read ; do some_command & done < <(echo a) wait It was working, however not with #!/bin/sh /Morten On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 3:16 PM, cyg Simple <cygsim...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/20/2016 1:42 PM, Morten Kjærulff wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I thought that #!/bin/sh in a script would be a bash, but it seems not >> to be - or what am I doing wrong? >> > > If you want to ensure that you have a particular flavor of shell then > don't use /bin/sh. The reason to use /bin/sh is that POSIX ensures it > exists but it doesn't have to be bash, even on Linux. For a generic > shell script use ksh syntax, you'll find that it gets you further and is > supported by bash. > > -- > cyg Simple > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
