[cs631apue] About background
Jan Schaumann
jschauma at stevens.edu
Thu Dec 17 17:48:07 EST 2015
Shenghan Gao <sgao9 at stevens.edu> wrote:
> I have a question about background job. My question is should '&' must at
> the end of all command when piping two or more commands? Is it possible
> that we let part of pipe be background like "ls -R & | wc"?
Consider what that means and how it would/could work. What would the
user expect? Compare to what other shells do, then decide for yourself.
-Jan
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