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From: Thomas Koehler <thomas@wi3d01.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 02:31:12PM -0500, Timothy Luoma wrote:
> 
> Say I have several background jobs which I can see with jobs -l which are
> either running in & mode or were control-Z'd into submission
> 
> [1]    11381 running    tail -1f /tmp/console.log
> [2]  - 11839 suspended  ls --ignore=.dir.tiff --ignore=.opendir.tiff
> --ignore=.dir3_0.wmd --classify  |
>        11840 suspended  less
> [3]  + 11841 suspended  find / -xdev -newer /etc/sendmail.cw -print
> [4]    11767 suspended  /usr/local/bin/pine -p
> /Users/luomat/Unix/pine/pine.rc -sort arrival -f activ
> 
> 
> 
> Now I want to get #2 back... is there any way that ZSH could be made to
> understand
> 
> fg \[2\]
> 
> or, better
> 
> fg 11839
> 
> ?

Try this:
fg %2

CU,
Thomas

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