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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 12:24:57 +0100
From: Stephane Chazelas <chazelas@tidhom1g.grenoble.hp.com>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Cc: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: why does "jobs | wc" not work?
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On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:49:30AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> There seems to be a strange bug with the jobs command in
> zsh-4.0.4.  It seems that the output of the jobs command refuses
> to go into a pipe.
[...]

It's more a problem of subshell.

( jobs )
doesn't work.

Note that you can get the number of jobs with ${#jobtexts}

Here is my PS1:
PS1='%(?..%B(%?%)%b)%m:%50<..<%~${jobtexts:+"[${#jobtexts}]"}%(#.#.$) '

-- 
Stéphane