Please do not TOP POST. On 8/22/2016 10:36 AM, Morten Kjærulff wrote: > Thanks. > > What I was actually trying, was this: > > echo a | while read ; do > some_command & > done > wait > > The "wait" did not wait. I guessed the reason was that "some_command > &" was executed in a subshell. > > So I tried: > > while read ; do > some_command & > done < <(echo a) > wait > > It was working, however not with #!/bin/sh >
What does ``/bin/sh --version'' print? The wait command is a shell internal command, there is no external equivalent. If you /bin/sh is bash then perhaps you've found a bug in the emulation of /bin/sh in bash. Bash takes a different code path when named sh. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
