EDIT WOOT IT WORKS.
check dis out
It returns a bool & when it finds one, then removes it. I checked with some debug statements but it works and removes the & correctly so it can do the statements normally.
Problem is now......getting background process to run.......which im derping on bigtime
here is a copy of the output, notice the 0 next to DEBUG, and the 1 when & is found. it means the Bool BG is turned on, when it finds an &.
I
myshell> ls -a
. .. a.out fork.c Hello .hi shell shell.c
0DEBUG:Child Finished
myshell> ls -l &
total 36
-rwxr-xr-x 1 matt matt 8435 2010-09-26 20:43 a.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 matt matt 943 2010-09-26 20:44 fork.c
drwxr-xr-x 2 matt matt 4096 2010-09-27 02:13 Hello
-rwxr-xr-x 1 matt matt 8292 2010-09-27 18:06 shell
-rw-r--r-- 1 matt matt 1570 2010-09-27 18:06 shell.c
1DEBUG:Child Finished
myshell>
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