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Subject: Re: A job signaller
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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 13:58:23 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Zefram" <zefram@tao.co.uk>
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In-Reply-To: <19981029143654.A4064@wigner.cstc.org> from "Paolo Pumilia" at Oct 29, 98 02:36:54 pm
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Paolo Pumilia wrote:
>Is there a way to put a mark within the prompt string to
>inform the user that jobs are still running from that shell?
>(e.g +/-: "+" for running or stopped jobs; "-" for no jobs)

I use something like this:

precmd () {
  if jobs % >& /dev/null; then
    psvar=("")
  else
    psvar=()
  fi
}
PS1="%(1v:+:-)> "

-zefram