On 6/14/23 6:12 PM, Ajeet D'Souza wrote:
Hey Chet,
Thanks for the quick reply. I have some follow-up questions:
* Is there an elegant way I can start an external process without it
showing up under jobs, even on affected versions? My current best idea
is: (_="$(/bin/echo)"; jobs -l)
You can try to disown it.
* Is there an elegant way I can get the correct number of jobs, even on
affected versions? My current best idea is to run jobsonce before doing
the count: (jobs &> /dev/null; jobs | wc -l)
You have to get the jobs you're not interested in removed from the jobs
table. That's as good a way as any if you don't know the job number or
if it's not the current job.
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