-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Robert Whent (rwhent) on 2/21/2008 10:59 AM: | | JOBS=`jobs` | | echo $JOBS | | this return nothing at all
As well it should. jobs returns information about the current shell's jobs. But inside ``, the command is executed in a subshell. The subshell has no child processes of its own (but is one of the children of the parent collecting the `` output). And for this reason, jobs has to be a shell builtin rather than an external application. | | I have also trawled the web and can find no reports of any issues ? | Try reading this link, especially under Application Usage http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/jobs.html - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHvlyT84KuGfSFAYARAmclAJ95ZIbKzGkaHB/Uzsb+16w8SKqWfwCdF4ao 6V+PKubsshFXciskWd27ftk= =giAF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
