InformatiQ

forking in bash is done using the & symbol, i knew that

I use it all the time, this time i needed to run a forked command in a loop, so i trie dthe following 

[rhanna@hovercraft ~]$ for I in obs-api obs-server obs-worker obs-ldap; do xterm -e "ssh -t sandman ssh $I" & ; done
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `xterm'

Looks bad huh ! the fix is simple (notice the parenthesis around the xterm command)

[rhanna@hovercraft ~]$ for I in obs-api obs-server obs-worker obs-ldap; do (xterm -e "ssh -t sandman ssh $I" &) ; done