Jeff Woods ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: (Personally I prefer to use the Korn shell when available so it would
: be nice to see it on MPE.)

Do you actually know of the minor difference between Posix and Korn?

One I recently noticed is that the Posix shell won't let you have the
"&" before the ";".

   for i in * ; do command-foo $i & ; done

Looks like you need:
   for i in * ; do { command-foo $i & } ; done