background processing (again?)

[Ronald J. Yacketta]

Folks,

to make a long story short I have a req to-do the following.
1) gather continues data from netstat -I hme0 $SLEEPTIME > $netstatTMPFILE &
while still parsing other information/data etc..

that is, the script needs to be bale to collect the netstat data while it is
running other process, not just fork netstat and wait for it to die/return.
it will never die/return unless it is killed.

Regards,
Ron