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From: koren@hpfelg.HP.COM (Steve Koren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CSH and SKSH
Message-ID: <13910027@hpfelg.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Jun 90 17:12:02 GMT
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Organization: HP Elec. Design Div. -FtCollins
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> Hi.  I used CSH and SKSH all the time, I was just wondering whether or
> not the authors had any intention of making these more UNIX like.
> For instance, if I put an ampersand at the end, fork off a new shell
> and execute the commands in the background.  It would probably make quite

Yes, I would like to do that, but it means something else besides
just "running" an external binary in the background.  For example,
you can do something like this in ksh:

( while true
  do
     rm ~/.sh_history 2>/dev/null
     sleep 30
  done
) >/dev/null 2>&1 &

And you have run a shell construct in the background.  Well, it would
be very easy for me to add that capability in SKsh (since it supports
the rest of the stuff), but I am missing one important capability
in AmigaDos without which it is very difficult to accomplish that.
If this capability ever appears in a supported and usable manner, I
will certainly make SKsh t.  In the meantime, you will have to be
content with running external binaries in the background.

   - steve