[On 05 Sep, @13:34, Matthew Wozniski wrote in "Re: fg jobs info ..."]
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 01:21:41PM +0200, Miek Gieben wrote:
> > Is there a way to get the jobnumber from any of these variables. 
> > $jobstates includes a lot, but not the actual job number.
> 
> Sure it does.  $jobstates, and $jobtexts for that matter, is an
> associative array, not a traditionally indexed array.  So, you can

ah

> just use ${(k)jobtexts} to find the current job numbers:
> 
> mastermind% sleep 50 &
> [1] 26864
> mastermind% sleep 100 &
> [2] 26865
> mastermind% sleep 20 &
> [3] 26866
> mastermind% kill %2
> mastermind%
> [2]  - terminated  sleep 100
> mastermind% echo ${(k)jobstates}
> 1 3

Thank you, this makes it very easy indeeed.


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