From: Goran Koruga <goran.koruga@hermes.si>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: get the number of active jobs to show in the prompt?
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 08:09:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011001080954.B19395@isis.hermes.si> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200110010600.f9160iq10821@bang.houseoflove>; from drewp@bigasterisk.com on Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 10:56:50PM -0700
On Sun, Sep 30 2001, Drew Perttula wrote:
Hi,
export PS1="`jobs | wc -l`" should work if you have PROMPT_SUBST set.
However, while testing it, I noticed that jobs | wc -l always prints 0
(other commands can't get its output either), so someone else will have
to explain you why this happens.
Goran
>
> Hello everyone-
>
> I'm tired of using my close-window shortcut to zap shells
> that still owned running programs, so I'd like my zsh prompt
> to indicate that somehow. I can't figure out how to do anything
> programmatically with the 'jobs' command (such as "jobs | wc -l"),
> so I'm lost as to how to do my prompt trick.
>
> TIA for any help
>
> -Drew
>
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-01 6:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-01 5:56 Drew Perttula
2001-10-01 6:09 ` Goran Koruga [this message]
2001-10-01 6:12 ` Sweth Chandramouli
2001-10-01 6:37 ` Phil Pennock
2001-10-01 6:59 ` Drew Perttula
2001-10-01 7:08 ` Sweth Chandramouli
2001-10-01 8:28 ` Deborah Ariel Pickett
2001-10-01 9:04 ` Phil Pennock
2001-10-01 17:44 ` Vincent Lefevre
2001-10-02 15:43 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-10-02 16:13 ` Vincent Lefevre
2001-10-02 23:25 ` Deborah Ariel Pickett
2001-10-02 23:29 ` unsubscribe me Matthew Lyon
2001-10-03 0:06 ` get the number of active jobs to show in the prompt? Vincent Lefevre
2001-10-03 5:43 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-10-03 14:22 ` Vincent Lefevre
2001-10-03 14:59 ` Vincent Lefevre
2001-10-03 15:11 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-10-03 15:35 ` Vincent Lefevre
2001-10-03 15:58 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-10-03 16:47 ` Vincent Lefevre
2001-10-03 17:09 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-10-03 19:34 ` Vincent Lefevre
2001-10-03 20:01 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-10-03 20:08 ` Vincent Lefevre
2001-10-03 21:46 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-10-03 21:51 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-10-03 23:15 ` Vincent Lefevre
2001-10-04 0:05 ` Bart Schaefer
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