Juli Mallett wrote:
Anyone with insight into this?
([EMAIL PROTECTED]:~)39% ( echo 1 ; ( ( echo 2 ; echo 3 ) | xargs -I% echo + % ) ) 1 + 2 + 3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]:~)40% ( echo 1 ; ( ( echo 2 ; echo 3 ) | xargs -I% echo + % ) ) | cat 1 + +2 3
last cat is not necessary... And it's more weird than that:
( echo 1 ; ( ( echo 2 ; echo 3 ) | xargs -I% echo -- + % ) )
1
-- --+ +2 3
Hmmm... This looks like xargs isn't waiting for the subcommand to exit. This looks like 'echo -- + 2' and 'echo -- + 3' are running concurrently.
Tim
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