From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 28 14:13: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web116.yahoomail.com (web116.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 481A114C87 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 14:12:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from osiris2002@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 3531 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Dec 1999 22:08:35 -0000 Message-ID: <19991228220835.3530.qmail@web116.yahoomail.com> Received: from [168.187.19.34] by web116.yahoomail.com; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 14:08:35 PST Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 14:08:35 -0800 (PST) From: Joss Roots Subject: Why this line never returns "2>&1" ? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi there, thanks for all the people who helped me finish my shell script. but one thing though, this line waits forever and never seem to give control back to its shell script to finsh the rest of the magic, do something here ... <-- ok of course cvsup -g ports.sup > mylog 2>&1 | tail -F mylog do somthing here.... <-- this is nevern reached thanks again for helping. ===== MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message