Can I run a shell function in background

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Name: pjb
Date: May 16, 2001 at 08:56:22 Pacific
Subject: Can I run a shell function in background

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I have two long running procedures within a single shell. I would like to separate them into functions and run them concurrently. When trying to run an internal function in background with the & I get the following error: functest.sh[4]: /tmp/sh382.1: cannot open. Is running a function in background this way even possible??

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Name: mike
Date: May 18, 2001 at 13:17:34 Pacific
Subject: Can I run a shell function in background

Reply: (edit)

looks like an error on line 4 of functest.sh

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