On 04/14/2012 10:33 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > No.... Not only that, you are placing the echo commands in the background. > So, it > is certainly possible that the script will finish before the echos are > completed. > Not only that, there is no guarantee that all output from the echos will be > written > to "out". You can see this if you put a sleep after the last echo. > > [egreshko@meimei test]$ grep ^A out | wc > 97 97 582 > [egreshko@meimei test]$ grep ^B out | wc > 94 94 564 > [egreshko@meimei test]$ grep ^C out | wc > 96 96 576 > > Your results will vary depending on the number of CPU's. If you have a > single CPU > system, you may very well get all 300.
My "poor" English may be misleading/ambiguous .... The output of the greps was *without* the sleep in the script. -- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. -- Dame Edna Everage -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
