Re: Waiting for _any_ background process to terminate.

2013-02-11 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 02:34:53PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 06:59:35PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > From a bash script, I'd like to be able to start several subtasks and > > react to any one of them completing. I don't think I can do this

Re: Waiting for _any_ background process to terminate.

2013-02-11 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 03:05:25PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 2/11/13 1:59 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, bug-bash. > > From a bash script, I'd like to be able to start several subtasks and > > react to any one of them completing. I don't think I can do this

Waiting for _any_ background process to terminate.

2013-02-11 Thread Alan Mackenzie
the go at any time. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: bash 2.05b.0(1)-release on Debian Sarge: [A-Z]* expands as [A-Za-z]* :-(

2008-01-30 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Bob and Eric, Thanks muchly for the help! On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:57:22PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > > According Alan Mackenzie: > > | % ls [A-Z]* > > | . Sadly, ls ignores my intentions and undiscerningly prints a list of > > | all fil

bash 2.05b.0(1)-release on Debian Sarge: [A-Z]* expands as [A-Za-z]* :-(

2008-01-28 Thread Alan Mackenzie
fine manual and tried: % shopt -u nocaseglob , but to no avail. Am I missing something obvious, or have I hit a bug? Thanks in advance for any help! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).