Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ogicse!reed!trost From: trost@reed.bitnet (Bill Trost) Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: putting multiple cmds in bg using & Message-ID: <13799@reed.UUCP> Date: 26 Dec 89 21:10:21 GMT References: <8912121932.AA20899@kailand.kai.com> <50009@bbn.COM> Sender: news@reed.UUCP Distribution: gnu Lines: 14 [Various people writing things about & in csh, including...] Article <50009@bbn.COM>, by pplacewa@antares.bbn.com (Paul W Placeway): >I'll have to re-read the csh man page, but at a glance I *swear* this >is a csh misfeature (aka. deliberate bug). The csh man page is vague. >From csh(1): .... Though I can't find the reference at the moment, it seems as though something stated that ';' had a higher precedence than '&' in the csh. Sorry to belabor this in this mailing list --- the csh does it wrong, in any case.