From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 28 14:25:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web107.yahoomail.com (web107.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ECA6C15398 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 14:25:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from osiris2002@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 18294 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Dec 1999 22:22:49 -0000 Message-ID: <19991228222249.18293.qmail@web107.yahoomail.com> Received: from [168.187.19.34] by web107.yahoomail.com; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 14:22:49 PST Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 14:22:49 -0800 (PST) From: Joss Roots Subject: Why this line never returns "2>&1" ? [Sorry Rephrasing the question] 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 --- Joss Roots wrote: > 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. Actually I really understand WHY its doing this, the question is; how to be able to cvsup the thing and at same time 1. log the output, and tail it to see what is going on there. 2. make 'tail' give back the control to following line after the initial process 'cvsup' returns. thank you for you patience. ===== 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