11-14-2007
Porter,
I am running on AIX unix 5.3.0.0-5
it starts up in ksh, I enter tcsh to get into my c shell.
From there I run my script abc.ksh passing parameter PROD and Y .
the execution line is :
%abc.ksh PROD Y
The first line of the script is:
#! /bin/ksh
This runs fine in the foreground.
Now if I do this:
%abc.ksh PROD Y &
the script abc still runs in the foreground .... should I escape the &?
Any other script which does not need params executes in the background when it gets invoked and & is given at the time of execution.
I do not think is a terminal or character set issue.
Thanks!
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times
times(1) User Commands times(1)
NAME
times - shell built-in function to report time usages of the current shell
SYNOPSIS
sh
times
ksh
times
DESCRIPTION
sh
Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from the shell.
ksh
Print the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for processes run from the shell.
On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:
1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.
2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.
3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort.
4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari-
able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not
performed.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
ksh(1), sh(1), time(1), attributes(5)
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