From: "Zefram" <zefram@tao.co.uk>
To: oma1000@cam.ac.uk (Owen M. Astley)
Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: jobs command and pipes
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 15:03:57 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199810301503.PAA23232@diamond.tao.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.981030143520.21124A-100000@alpha2.poco.phy.cam.ac.uk> from "Owen M. Astley" at Oct 30, 98 02:36:05 pm
Owen M. Astley wrote:
>Why is it that the jobs command in zsh will not work with a pipe, although
>redirecting it to a file does work?
If the jobs command is on the left hand side of a pipeline, the shell has
to fork, and the jobs builtin runs in the forked process. This process
is not in control of any jobs, so the jobs command has nothing to report.
-zefram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-10-30 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <199810301148.LAA20596@diamond.tao.co.uk>
1998-10-30 12:43 ` zsh-3.1.5 released Geoff Wing
1998-10-30 14:36 ` jobs command and pipes Owen M. Astley
1998-10-30 15:03 ` Zefram [this message]
1998-10-30 16:14 ` Stefan Monnier
1998-10-30 17:01 ` Zefram
1998-10-30 22:14 ` Dan Nelson
1998-10-30 15:08 ` Bruce Stephens
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