On 11/6/12 4:21 PM, Elliott Forney wrote: > Thanks! If you run the sample script below you will see that the > development branch of bash occasionally crashes with an Aborted.. > message too. > > Do you have an opinion on having a variant of wait, say "wait -", that > will simply wait for any job to complete and return it's exit status?
This turns out to be trickier than I first thought, because there's very little shell infrastructure to help do it. It will be a while before I design and implement a solution. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/