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Re: ppd
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 21:26:43 -0700
- Subject: Re: ppd
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <20040417034945.7220.qmail@web12403.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Christopher Spears wrote:
> 2% (date; du ~) | ./ppd.txt ~/disk_storage&
>
> Nothing is prepended to disk_storage! I created
> disk_storage before running this script because I was
> getting an error message when the script could not
> find a file with that name. Can anyone tell me what I
> have done wrong? Any suggestions on writing scripts
> in cygwin would be appreciated, too!
I tried your script exactly as above and it worked fine for me.
However, in the above command you are including "&" on the end which
means the job is run in the background. For me it took du several
minutes to rummage through my home directory. If you have a lot of
stuff there I suspect you just weren't patient enough.
Brian
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