From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: Zefram <zefram@tao.co.uk>,
Stefan Monnier
<monnier+lists/zsh/users/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: jobs command and pipes
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 16:14:42 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19981030161442.B18571@emsphone.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199810301701.RAA31371@diamond.tao.co.uk>; from "Zefram" on Fri Oct 30 17:01:18 GMT 1998
In the last episode (Oct 30), Zefram said:
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >Now the question is: why "on the left hand side" rather the other ?
> >Zsh isn't particularly lean and mean, os mayb eit makes sense to
> >offer the choice so that "jobs | something" can work (and so that we
> >can choose which process' exit status will be used for the whole
> >pipe's exit status ?
>
> We almost have that already. "jobs >>(tr a-z A-Z)" works, except
> that it doesn't wait for the tr to terminate. Perhaps that should be
> changed.
If they're treated like background jobs, should "wait" wait for them to
finish? Should "jobs" display them? I vote for treating them like
pipes.
-Dan Nelson
dnelson@emsphone.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-10-30 22:17 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
1998-10-30 16:14 ` Stefan Monnier
1998-10-30 17:01 ` Zefram
1998-10-30 22:14 ` Dan Nelson [this message]
1998-10-30 15:08 ` Bruce Stephens
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