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What rules govern the parent-child relationship of processes launched by shell across a pipe?
#!/bin/ksh
# start_service: start the service
my_server_executable 2>&1 | my_pipe_following_shell_script &
exit 0
After I run the above start_service script from command line, it is ...
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Piping output to text file within a for loop
I'm trying to do the following within a for loop:
Find files that satisfy a condition
Echo the name of the files to a log file.
Gzip the file.
I can get the script to find the files and echo their ...
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Bash vs ksh pipes
I am stuck with some problems with my scripts in ksh. FWIW the problem which I am unable to overcome is that when I use a structure such as this
command | while read VAR1
do
many.commands using ...
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Ksh loses data after piping 16K bytes
I recently found that ksh may lose some data after printing more than 16K bytes to the stdout if it is blocked for a couple of seconds.
This test.sh script prints out 257*64 (16448) bytes:
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