Re: `jobs | wc -l' => 0 ... bug?

["Thomas Köhler" <jean-luc@picard.franken.de>]

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On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 04:18:10PM +0100,
Adam Spiers <adam@spiers.net> wrote:
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Bostjan Muller <neonatus@neonatus.net> -----
> 
> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 18:09:31 +0100
> To: Adam Spiers <adam@spiers.net>
> Subject: Re: the power of zsh
> From: neonatus@neonatus.net (Bostjan Muller)
> X-Parp-Accepted: had In-Reply-To: header
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Only one more thing.. I used to include a command in my prompt, that displayed
> the number of background processes running I got the number with the following
> command:
> jobs | wc -l | tr -d " "
> but in zsh wc does not seem to get any input:
> $ jobs
> [1]  - suspended  mc
> [3]  + suspended  mc
> 
> $ jobs | wc -l
>       0
> 
> Where in bash I get this:
> $ jobs
> [1]-  Stopped                 /usr/bin/mc $*
> [2]+  Stopped                 /usr/bin/mc $*
> 
> $ jobs | wc -l
>       2
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
> This is a bug, surely?

Well, it's not what one would expect (and the section about "jobs" in
"man zshbuiltins" doesn't mention such behaviour), so you might call it
a bug.

Of course, you can still use $jobstates for many things. Tried that?

Ciao,
Thomas

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