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From: holtz@bern.uucp (Brian Holtz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: csh: precedence of ; and &
Keywords: csh
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Date: 11 Apr 89 16:45:47 GMT
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How can I effectively invert the precedence of ; and & in csh?

If I alias mymake to

    date >>! make.\!*; make \!* >>&! make.\!* &; tail -f make.\!*
                     ^                        ^
and invoke it, csh puts both the date and the make command in the
same background job, and runs tail.  Instead, I want it to
run date, then start make in the background, and then run tail.
I don't want to enclose the make ... & command in  a parenthesized
subshell, because then I lose job control over the process.