Hutch at 20:10, 4 September 2008

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Hutch: New page: Trying to background a command within a shell loop? e.g., # '''for VAR in 1 2 3 ; do ''run_program'' $VAR & ; done''' bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;' The reason is explain...

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New page: Trying to background a command within a shell loop? e.g., # '''for VAR in 1 2 3 ; do ''run_program'' $VAR & ; done''' bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;' The reason is explain...

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Trying to background a command within a shell loop? e.g.,

# '''for VAR in 1 2 3 ; do ''run_program'' $VAR & ; done'''
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'

The reason is explained [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=504030 here]. Both '''&''' and ''';''' are line terminators; you only need to specify '''&''' before '''done'''.

e.g.,
# '''for VAR in 1 2 3 ; do ''program'' $VAR & done'''
[1] 7810
[2] 7811
[3] 7812

* [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=504030 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=504030]

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Hutch at 20:10, 4 September 2008

Hutch: New page: Trying to background a command within a shell loop? e.g., # '''for VAR in 1 2 3 ; do ''run_program'' $VAR & ; done''' bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;' The reason is explain...