time for i in `ls /tmp/chunk*`; do (cat $i | tr ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq > /tmp/line${i:10}) & ;done
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
Whats the syntax error in the above command? I also tried using {}
and ended the piped commands with ;
. But same error shows up ...
You should put the &
inside the ()
, if you want to run all the jobs in parallel in the background.
time for i in `ls /tmp/chunk*`; do
(cat $i | tr ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq > /tmp/line${i:10} &)
done