echo vs. ls race condition?

Fred Kulack kulack@us.ibm.com
Mon May 24 16:49:00 GMT 2004


> Short summary:  a loop with echo and ls does not produce well-ordered
> output

For what it's worth, it works fine on my system. 
        XP Professional
        bash                    2.05b-16 

I always try an update and see if its still happens when I find something
not quite right.


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  something like mathematics, and something like language, and 
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