From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: `jobs | wc -l' => 0 ... bug?
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:54:02 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200103270654.IAA14212@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Peter Stephenson's message of Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:29:03 +0000
Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > From: neonatus@neonatus.net (Bostjan Muller)
> > 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
>
> jobs here runs in a subshell, where there is no job control, so no
> information on jobs. It has always been this way. It's not particularly
> convenient, however. Maybe it's time someone thought about changing it.
>
> The only workaround is to use a temporary file for output.
But in zsh one can do that faster with ${#jobdirs} (or jobstates or
jobtexts) anyway. After the parameter module is loaded.
Bye
Sven
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Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-27 6:54 Sven Wischnowsky [this message]
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2001-03-26 15:18 Adam Spiers
2001-03-26 15:29 ` Peter Stephenson
2001-03-26 16:48 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-03-26 17:04 ` Peter Stephenson
2001-03-27 13:13 ` Adam Spiers
2001-03-26 15:33 ` Thomas Köhler
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