On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:10 AM, John Tate <[email protected]> wrote: > I put a comment in before the line with a problem, I don't understand > why it's not working. > > bash# for x in 1 2 3 4; do time dd if=/dev/random of=/home/test$x > bs=1k count=64k & done \ > while [ $V -eq 0 ]; \ > do \ > #why the hell is this such a problem!
because it breaks the line continuation (`\') there's no need to use that here anyway, presuming this isn't part of a makefile > V = 0 \ > clear \ > echo -n "Jobs running... " \ > if jobs 4; then; echo -n "last job running!"; else; echo -n "last job stopped"; > B env V=1; fi \ > sleep 1 \ > done > time cat secure1 secure2 secure3 secure4 > secure_t.vnd \ > time rm secure1 secure2 secure3 secure4 > > John Tate. > > -- > www.johntate.org
