Shell command doesn't give feedback until done

[Dar Scott]

On Jun 2, 2005, at 2:37 PM, Brian Yennie wrote:

>> Do you know how to do that in OS X?  I tried some variations on shell 
>> punctuation, but that didn't work for me.
>
> On OS X you should be able to just do:
>
> get shell("mycommand > mylogfile.log")

But that still won't return until mycommand is finished.  The advantage 
of "start" in Windows is that you can use it to spin off another app or 
even another shell.

I have some vague memory of using some fancy punctuation in some unix 
shells to start a process but not wait until it finishes, but that must 
have been over a month ago, because I can't remember how that goes.  I 
have a book here that might help, if I remember where I put it.  In any 
case, I wasn't able to do what I wanted with shell(), that is, to have 
shell() return right away.  Hmmm.  I may have been working with pipes 
and that complicated what I was doing.  I now use an external.

Dar

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