Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> writes: > Yes. As described in later messages, there is a special case that allows > the output of `jobs' to be piped. This came in at some point between > bash-1.05 (March 1990) and bash-1.08 (May 1991). I never extended this > special case to `builtin' or `command'.
Is this (are these) special cases documented? I just looked through my (admittedly obsolete) bash man page and couldn't find any mention of special behavior of the "jobs" builtin. But presumably careful reading of the documentation of "command", "builtin", and "jobs" would show which cases work in which way. Dale
