On 9/21/19 1:37 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 17:18:47 +0200
> From: Andreas Schwab <[email protected]>
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>
> | A job spec already starts with %.
>
> That's not what was meant.
It's the right answer, though.
>
> In, for example:
>
> jinx$ help -s wait
> wait: wait [-fn] [id ...]
>
> the command name appears both before and after the ':', as if to
> say "The usage for the wait command is "wait" optional 'f' and 'n' flags,
> and some number of optional "id" args.
The job spec, introduced by the `%', *is* the command. It's explained in
the man page. Even a `%' by itself, without any job name or number, is a
job spec. So `%' is not a command name per se -- the command that gets
invoked is either `fg' or `bg'.
Chet
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