> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf > Of Igor Pechtchanski > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: --8<-- > > *The point* is beeing able to launch the time/cpu-consuming > task and then > > "append" the paging later. > > > > The obvious is to concatenate "cat ..." with the line above it > > - but this is NOT the answer I'm asking for. >> $ echo > list.md5; find -type f | xargs md5sum -b >> list.md5 2>&1 & > [1] 5060 > $ wait %1; cat TaskDone.wav >/dev/dsp >> HTH, > Igor Ahh... job-handling, ofcourse! Thanks! NEWBIE? FYI: $ man bash /JOB CONTROL $ help wait $ help jobs /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems - 59?14'N, 17?12'E --END OF MESSAGE-- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/