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RE: OT: to be "nice", or not...
- From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" <garbage_collector at telia dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 00:37:11 +0200
- Subject: RE: OT: to be "nice", or not...
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Igor Pechtchanski
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote:
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> > *The point* is beeing able to launch the time/cpu-consuming
> task and then
> > "append" the paging later.
> >
> > The obvious is to concatenate "cat ..." with the line above it
> > - but this is NOT the answer I'm asking for.
>
> $ echo > list.md5; find -type f | xargs md5sum -b >> list.md5 2>&1 &
> [1] 5060
> $ wait %1; cat TaskDone.wav >/dev/dsp
>
> HTH,
> Igor
Ahh... job-handling, ofcourse! Thanks!
NEWBIE? FYI:
$ man bash
/JOB CONTROL
$ help wait
$ help jobs
/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems - 59?14'N, 17?12'E
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