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- From: sue@byron.u.washington.edu (Shu-Chen Eclipse)
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- Subject: question on "&"
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.073403.3530@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 07:34:03 GMT
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- I'm a crass beginnier in unix: I know "&" means something like start a
- process running in the background, I guess, something like vms's "run/detached";while browsing through some scripts, I saw a line something like
- (/../.../some file name &)&.
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- what does the 2 "&" mean?
- thanx in advance,
- sue@byron.u.washington.edu
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