On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 13:47 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> That might be a little more heavy-handed than you were looking for,
> but since you're already hitting /tmp it shouldn't be terrible to add
> a FIFO there.
Yeah. I really didn't want to use a named pipe for this.
Thanx for the help tho
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:28:00PM -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> tar cf - /etc | tar xf - | tee /tmp/outfile
> I want (specifically) the second
> tar command to run in the background and I want to wait for it so that
> the "trap" in the parent shell can process signals. Altogether I want:
>
