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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:20:44 -0800
From: Danek Duvall <duvall@emufarm.org>
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Subject: Re: why does "jobs | wc" not work?
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On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:33:33PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:

>   jobs > x; I=0; while read X; do I=$[I+1]; done < x; echo $I
> 
> Can anyone think of a more efficient way (speed does matter here)?

Assuming you have a recent enough version of zsh (4.0.x has it, but I'm
not sure when it was introduced):

    echo $#jobstates

$jobdirs and $jobtexts are also available.  They're in the zsh/parameter
module if you don't already have it loaded.

Danek