holtz@bern.uucp (Brian Holtz) (04/11/89)
How can I effectively invert the precedence of ; and & in csh?
If I alias mymake to
date >>! make.\!*; make \!* >>&! make.\!* &; tail -f make.\!*
^ ^
and invoke it, csh puts both the date and the make command in the
same background job, and runs tail. Instead, I want it to
run date, then start make in the background, and then run tail.
I don't want to enclose the make ... & command in a parenthesized
subshell, because then I lose job control over the process.