On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Chet Ramey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Consider the following: >> $ AA=aa; BB=bb; (sleep 10; echo $AA $BB) & jobs >> [1] 6626 >> [1]+ Running ( sleep 10; echo $AA $BB ) & >> If there any way tell jobs command to output AA and BB substituted with >> their values? > > The variables are expanded in the subshell, not in the parent shell > maintaining the jobs table. There's no guarantee that the parent shell > and the subshell have the same values for AA and BB. That explains it. Thank you!
-- Zaar
