On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:30:40AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sun, 1 May 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> If you want to more-or-less duplicate the behavior of 1.5.15 you can do >> something like this: >> >> (echo 99999&; echo YOUR TEXT HERE) > /tmp/FIFO > >This is pretty obvious from the context and the following paragraph, but >just to clarify for the archives: the above should be > >(sleep 99999&; echo YOUR TEXT HERE) > /tmp/FIFO
Actually, it should be: (sleep 99999& echo YOUR TEXT HERE) > /tmp/FIFO i.e., no semicolon. But, then, 'cat <>' is better. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
