On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > should that be "gedit $1 && shift;" ?
No, the single "&" is tokenized by the shell as both the job backgrounder and a command separator (e.g. ";"). The shell often compresses functions like this, presumably to save RAM. The double ampersand is the logical and, which in this case would make the shift conditional on the successful exit status of gedit. -- "Of course I'm in shape! Round's a shape, isn't it?" -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
